Academic competence in preschool: Exploring the role of close relationships and anxiety
A discussion of preschool children’s psychosocial pathway to school readiness and the importance of primary caregiver attachment as it relates to children’s anxiety, peer relationships and academic success, based on parent and teacher interviews and evaluations of 31 preschool children
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Added value of dialogic parent-child book readings: A meta-analysis
An analysis of data from multiple studies on of the effects of dialogic parent-child book reading on the vocabulary skills of young children
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Adult attunement and child availability: Interaction of mother and caregiver with three-year-old Kibbutz children
An investigation of adult attentiveness and intrusiveness in dyadic relations between children and their mothers and caregivers, in a sample of 33 three-year-old Kibbutz children in Israel
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Adult response to children's exploratory behaviours: An exploratory study
An examination of the potential responses to children’s exploratory behavior and the assumptions and rationale behind those responses, based on the responses of 19 preschool teachers and 14 parents to vignettes and interview questions
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African American and Puerto Rican American parenting styles, paternal involvement, and Head Start children's social competence
A comparison of African-American and Puerto Rican-American parenting styles and paternal involvement, and an examination of the relationship of mother’s and father’s parenting styles and child care involvement on Head Start participating children’s social competence
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Age 2: Findings from the 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
A description of the demographic characteristics, early childhood development, maternal attachment, nonparental care experiences, and father involvement of two-year-old children, based on data from the nationally representative 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
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''Are two better than one?'': The impact of years in Head Start on child outcomes, family environment, and reading at home
An examination of the relationship between length of participation in Head Start and family and child outcomes, using data collected by the Neighborhood House Association Head Start Program of San Diego County
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Assessing the role of book reading practices in Indian bilingual children's English language and literacy development
An examination of the impact of Indian bilingual parents’ book reading practices on the development of their children’s English oral language, narrative, and literacy skills, testing the skills of 24 bilingual children from two preschools in Bangalore, India
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The Australian first-time grandparents study: Time spent with the grandchild and its predictors
Aim: This paper presents data on the amount of contact a large cohort of first-time Australian grandparents have with their grandchild, and the amount of child care they provide. It compares these with grandparents' expectations and desired levels.
Method: Prospective grandparents were assessed on multiple measures before the birth of their grandchild, and at 6, 12, 24 and 36 months thereafter.
Results: At the 12-month assessment, grandmothers had approximately 15 hours per week contact, and provided approximately 7.5 hours per week of child care. The corresponding figures for grandfathers were 9.5 hours and 5 hours respectively. Approximately 10% of grandparents reported no contact with their grandchild, and 30-40% reported undertaking no child care. Almost half the grandparents desired more contact than they were actually getting.
Conclusion: Accurate quantification of contact and care is a prerequisite for investigation of the impact of the transition to grandparenthood on health and well-being. (author abstract)
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Book reading interactions between African American and Puerto Rican Head Start children and their mothers
An observational study examining and comparing the interaction styles between African American and Puerto Rican mothers and their Head Start children during shared book reading
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Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-mother families
An observational study of shared book reading to determine if there are variations in reading methods between mothers without a partner and mothers and fathers from dual-parent families
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Born too soon: What can we expect?: Nature of home literacy experiences for children with very low birth weight
An exploration of the home literacy experiences of children born with a very low birth weight and their influence on children?s literacy development, based on observations of and interviews with 16 families of 4-year old children born with a very low birthweight
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Bridging the Gap: Improving literacy outcomes for Indigenous students
An evaluation of an at-home family book reading intervention designed to provide aboriginal children with the prerequisite literacy skills for school entry
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A call to commitment: Fathers' involvement in children's learning
An investigation into the influence of fathers’ involvement in children’s early education on children’s development and outcomes
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Caregiver involvement in infant peer interactions: Scaffolding in a social context
An examination of child care provider guidance of young children and their early social experiences with peers during infancy from videotapes of 36 infants in three center-based infant child care programs in a medium-sized city in Northern California, that were part of a larger study infant development within the contexts of child care and home
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Care neglect, supervisory neglect, and harsh parenting in the development of children's aggression: A replication and extension
A study investigating the effects of poor supervision, parental neglect, and punitive parenting on the development of children's aggression
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'Cause they trust their parents, don't they?': Supporting literacy in the first three years of life
A presentation of parent’s perceptions of their interactions with their young children participating in the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) early literacy support program in Australia
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Child and maternal contributions to shared reading: Effects on language and literacy development
A longitudinal study of the effects of mother-child home literacy practices on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts from 18 to 42 months of age
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Child care choices and children's cognitive achievement: The case of single mothers
An investigation of the effect of child care attendance and mother-child interactions on children's cognitive achievement, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort (NLSY79)
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Child care choices and children's cognitive achievement: The case of single mothers
An investigation of the effect of child care attendance and mother-child interactions on children's cognitive achievement, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 Cohort (NLSY79)
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Child care & early education in Illinois: The choices parents make
A study of the child care arrangements of families in Illinois, including the association of arrangement type with family characteristics and parent-child reading practices, based on data from the 2003-2004 National Survey of Children's Health
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Child-care usage and mother-infant ''quality time''
A study of mother’s time use and mother-infant interaction in families where infants spent more than 30 hours pet week in child care vs. 0 hours per week from birth to age 6 months
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Children's achievement at school-entry age as a function of mothers' and fathers' teaching sets
A study of parents’ involvement, beliefs, and perceptions of their teaching roles as it relates to children’s achievement by kindergarten
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Children's achievement in early elementary school: Longitudinal effects of parental involvement, expectations, and quality of assistance
A longitudinal study exploring the relationship between children's academic achievement and parents' involvement in their children's school experience, their expectations regarding their children's achievement, and quality of instruction prior to school entry
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Children's literacy: Children's Books for Healthy Families/Libros de Ninos para Familias Saludables
A special issue of the Journal of Extension, summarizing a longitudinal study of the relationship between parent-child reading activities and emergent literacy in children from birth to age three
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