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“Kids absolutely need opportunities to play, but parents shouldn't feel pressured to always be their child's playmate,” Christine Carrig, director of Carrig Montessori School in Brooklyn, N.Y ...
Parents that choose to have only one child could differ systematically in their characteristics from parents who choose to have more than one child. The paper concludes that "those who grew up as only children as a consequence of the [one-child] policy [in China] are found to be less trusting, less trustworthy, less likely to take risks, and ...
According to Pew Research Center data, the number of birthing parents who reached the end of their childbearing years with only one child doubled in the last generation — from 11 percent in 1976 ...
China's one-child policy has contributed to a significant drop in the number of entrepreneurs — and only children who do start their own businesses tend to perform worse financially.
Father and children reading. According to a literature review by Christopher Spera (2005), Darling and Steinberg (1993) suggest that it is important to better understand the differences between parenting styles and parenting practices: "Parenting practices are defined as specific behaviors that parents use to socialize their children", while parenting style is "the emotional climate in which ...
The parent can add to the child's play, or do something similar, but the focus should still remain on the child's style of play. The attention that imitation can demonstrate can show the child that the parent is interested and believes what they are doing is important. Imitation may even lead to the child imitating the parent.
The refrain of parents is “I love all my children equally.” But not all kids get treated equally. Experts explain the impact of preferential treatment in a family.
Much of the research focuses on the influence play has on child social development. There are different forms of play that influence child social development. One study [81] explored the influence of playing styles with mothers versus playing styles with fathers and how it influences child social development. "[I]ntegral to positive development ...