Parents of gifted children need to understand the child's special emotional needs and recognize the importance of letting the children have time to be children without unreasonable expectations and demands. (CL)

Children, especially those with learning disabilities, are said to need resolute parental guidance and discipline in order to learn that their actions have consequences and that act and consequence (stimulus and response) are linked. (KW)

Parents can control their child's behavior by providing reasonable sequences to their child's misbehavior. Examples of this approach illustrate how using natural and direct consequences helps children learn responsibility and parents avoid power struggles. (CL)

Maternal estimates of child performance and performance-based scores using the Learning Accomplishments Profile compared with 18 young handicapped children revealed positive relationships for maternal estimates and evaluator ratings for overall scores as well as for four subscales. No significant difference was found for overall scores between the…

Eight suggestions are offered for parents and teachers to maximize children's creative potential. Suggestions touch on such aspects as balance between interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences, allowance for comfortable regression in growth patterns, and well-defined standards of discipline and conduct. (CL)

Critiques Bohannon and Stanowicz's (1988) conclusion that natural languages can be learned and that there is no need to postulate innate knowledge. Argues that Bohannon and Stanowicz's results disclose nothing about learnability or innateness. (RH)

Describes head, body, and crab lice so parents can recognize and respond to the problem in their children, noting that head lice are common in grade school children. The article includes an insert that describes 10 steps in recognizing signs of lice and providing treatment. (SM)

Abstract Guided by social constructionist and symbolic interactionist perspectives and a grounded theory method, my conceptual analysis explores stepfathers experiences with claiming stepchildren as their own. Using indepth interviews with a diverse sample of 36 stepfathers, my analysis focuses on paternal claiming as a core category and generates…

We examined children's use of apology terms in parent-child discourse. Longitudinal data from 9 children (5 males, 4 females) between the ages of 1;2 and 6;1 were analysed. Before 2;0, the use of apology terms was rare. Thereafter, several developmental trends were noted including a decrease with age in directly elicited apologies and an increase…

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the phenomenon of the conflicting roles, such as parent, spouse, employee, caregiver, and community member/volunteer, associated with the lives of nontraditional college students and to reveal how these conflicting role obligations influence these students' persistence toward the attainment of…

This booklet gives adults practical tips to help kids navigate the online world. Kids and parents have many ways of socializing and communicating online, but they come with certain risks. This guide encourages parents to reduce the risks by talking to kids about how they communicate--online and off--and helping kids engage in conduct they can be…

After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why would highly educated parents increase the amount of time they allocate to childcare at the same time that…

This article first examines why the homeschooling movement in the USA emerged in the 1970s, noting the impact of political radicalism both right and left, feminism, suburbanization, and public school bureaucratization and secularization. It then describes how the movement, constituted of left- and right-wing elements, collaborated in the early…

The numbers of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have increased in schools. This study was conducted to document mothers' experiences of the care their CSHCN receive across health care and educational settings. Data were collected during standardized, open-ended, one-on-one interviews with 10 mothers of CSHCN in urban, suburban, and…

In this article, we examine the findings of a qualitative study exploring high school teachers' perceptions of student behavior problems. Four focus groups, each including four to eight teachers, were conducted through major school districts in two Southwestern states (Texas and Arizona). Descriptive phenomenology was used to identify patterns and…