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How Children Experience Divorce Every child is unique. Every child will react differently to divorce. Many things affect how a child responds to divorce. For one thing, children have different understandings of and feelings about divorce. It can help if parents know what children think and feel. This article will explain how many children respond to divorce. This may help you to better understand your children's experiences. Document
How Children's Social Competence Impacts Their Well-Being in Adulthood New research findings suggest that kindergarten children who were rated by their teachers as demonstrating greater social competence skills (resolves peer problems, listens to others, shares materials, cooperates and is helpful) in kindergarten were more likely to attain higher education and well-paying jobs in adulthood. Children rated as demonstrating weaker social competency skills were found to be more likely to drop out of high school, abuse drugs and alcohol, and need government assistance. A summary of the study, How Children's Social Competence Impacts Their Well-Being in Adulthood (July 2015), provides an overview of major findings and implications for further action. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the American Journal of Public Health (July 2015). Document
How Does Early Life Diet Affect a Child's Mental Health and Personality? "In a child's life, the period from conception until two years old is crucial for growth and development. In addition to the development of vital organs and regulatory systems, this phase also determines a child's personality, mental health, and socio-emotional growth. Hence, optimal nourishment must be provided during pregnancy and the first years of a child's life." Learn more in this article written by By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. for News Medical Life Sciences. Website
How Does Occupational Therapy Help Children? In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what occupational therapy is and how an OT works with children around self care skills, sensory needs, and fine motor development.  Podcast
How Does the ADA Relate to Child Care? Child care is considered a public accommodation under the ADA and so must comply with the civil right mandates of access and non-discriminatory policies and practices for children and their families. This tip sheet covers expectations for child care programs under the ADA. Tipsheet
How is Child Care Quality Measured This February 2016 toolkit, How is Child Care Quality Measured?, is for anyone interested in measuring and monitoring the quality of child care centers serving infants from birth to age 3. Sections document why quality is important, aspects of quality that are important to measure, instruments for assessing quality, and considerations for ongoing quality. Document
How Parents Widen or Shrink Academic Gaps High-income parents are often more involved with certain activities at their children's school than lower-income parents - volunteering in their children's school, attending school meetings, and so on - experiences that can link them to more opportunities and resources for their children and more influence in schools. A recent article, How Parents Widen--or Shrink--Academic Gaps(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/04/19/how-parents-widen--or-shri…) in Education Week takes a look how those differences in parent involvement can create hidden disparities that are easy for schools to overlook but hard for poor families to overcome. If you are interested in engaging each and every family member to support their child/ren?s full participation, this article will provide some compelling evidence. Document
How Play Promotes Cognitive Development Play promotes the development of a multitude of cognitive skills. When children participate in play and have opportunities to become fully involved in what they are doing, and they develop more sophisticated and complex ways of thinking. Tipsheet
How Sleep Savvy are You? A Tool for Reducing Infant Sleep Related Deaths The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality has made available a short video quiz that can be used as an interactive, visual tool to prompt discussions about safe sleep best practices. Website
How the World Potty Trains In this article from CNN Health, "experts weigh in on how parents around the world potty train their little ones. From the age it starts to the methods used, potty training is different around the world." Document
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