"Neuroscience, clinical science, developmental science all point to the need to meet babies' needs... read more
"Neuroscience, clinical science, developmental science all point to the need to meet babies' needs... read more |
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. |
Each day of October, we'll celebrate AP Month 2020 with a focus of providing new support for parents and professionals. |
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"Breastfeeding is the cornerstone of infant and young child survival, nutrition and development and maternal health. |
"This classic book is a wonderful parental companion that can be read a few pages at a time. Inspirational stories and research nurture the parent into an empathic embrace of her child. |
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"There’s no doubt that the ACE Study is an easy door to go through to begin to explore the mind-bending, world-changing knowledge of... read more |
The University of Wisconsin, Cooperative Extension Parenting and Family Relationships website (parenting.uwex.edu) is a resource developed by a team of family and parenting specialists at UW-Madison’s Extension Human Development and Relationships Ins |
Post-deployment programs that address parenting would be helpful, especially for families with children from birth through age 5, as this age group is particularly vulnerable to changes in attachment patterns. |
While it is well known that traumatic or extended separations negatively impact child development, even week-long separations that occur within the first two years of life have lasting consequences on child behavior. |
In solitary sleep arrangements, mothers were more involved in nighttime parenting than fathers, and breastfeeding was related to less father involvement. More father involvement early on predicted fewer night-wakings by 6 months. |
Child sleep problems are based more on culturally-influenced parental perceptions than actual biological reasons, and nighttime sleep issues tended to be perceived more problematic than daytime naps. |
More research is needed to identify normal sleep patterns in breastfed versus bottle-fed infants, in toddlers, on weekdays versus weekends, and as related to gender and ethnic differences. What is known is that children sleep longer at night and experience fewer night-wakings and daytime naps as they develop. |
More research is needed to identify what is normal when it comes to child sleep. Some of what is known is that children need longer nighttime sleep until about 9 years old. By school age, most children sleep through the night, but children up to 3 1/2 years old continue to wake at least once. Low birth-weight and pre-term infants sleep more. Infants of younger mother sleep more. All infants sleep longer at night, wake multiple times at night, and sleep longer daytime naps than young children who mostly stop taking naps by 5 years old. Girls sleep longer than boys. Children with siblings sleep less. |
Touch is needed for social-emotional and physical development and well-being. In addition, there are therapeutic benefits of massage. |
While maternal touch predicts mother-infant reciprocity, which is linked to positive child cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, the incidence of all forms of nurturing touch decrease through the infant’s first year, especially after six months. |
While more research is needed, the benefits of responsive feeding on child nutrition and growth are expected to be as great as responsive parenting is to child outcome. |
Research on responsive feeding is promising, but more research is needed to define child outcomes. |