Parenting
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Randomized clinical trial of behavioral intervention and nutrition education to improve caloric intake and weight in children with cystic fibrosis.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of a behavioral plus nutrition education intervention, Be In CHARGE!, compared with that of a nutrition education intervention alone on caloric intake and weight gain in children with cystic fibrosis and ... Read more...

Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudes.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to explore the association between parenting style and driving behaviors. METHODS: The 2006 National Young Driver Survey gathered data on driving safety behaviors from a nationally representative sample of 5665 ninth-, 10th-, ... Read more...

Randomized trial of a parenting intervention for very preterm infants: outcome at 2 years.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: To determine the efficacy of a neonatal parenting intervention for improving development in very preterm infants. STUDY DESIGN: A cluster-randomized, controlled trial with a cross-over design and washout period was conducted in 6 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Parenting'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Internet safety. 29 Sep 2009
• Randomized clinical trial of behavioral intervention and nutrition education to improve caloric intake and weight in children with cystic fibrosis. 29 Sep 2009
• Associations between parenting styles and teen driving, safety-related behaviors and attitudes. 29 Sep 2009
• Randomized trial of a parenting intervention for very preterm infants: outcome at 2 years. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of children's routines of daily living, supervision, and maternal fatigue in preschool children's injury risk. 29 Sep 2009
• Connected kids at Head Start: taking office-based violence prevention to the community. 19 Sep 2009
• Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: the role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support. 30 Aug 2009
• The intergenerational transmission of parenting: closing comments for the special section. 30 Aug 2009
• A prospective three generational study of fathers' constructive parenting: influences from family of origin, adolescent adjustment, and offspring temperament. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational continuity in parenting behavior: mediating pathways and child effects. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational continuity in parenting quality: the mediating role of social competence. 30 Aug 2009
• Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• The intergenerational continuity of observed early parenting: a prospective, longitudinal study. 30 Aug 2009
• The intergenerational transmission of parenting: introduction to the special section. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of a new self-report measure of parental attributions. 30 Aug 2009
• Mastery of mothering skills and satisfaction with associated health services: an ethnocultural comparison. 30 Aug 2009
• Family functioning and maternal distress in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa. 30 Aug 2009
• Interventional use of the parent-child interaction assessment-II enactments: modifying an abused mother's attributions to her son. 30 Aug 2009
• [Play: the foundation of life. Child play as the motor of personality development] 30 Aug 2009
• Financial incentives to promote social mobility. 23 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Parenting'

Definition: Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.

Descriptor UI: D016487

Alternative terms: Parenting;

Related Mesh Headings: Child Rearing;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; history; psychology; trends;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.370.310;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: differentiate from CHILD REARING which emphasizes the upbringing while PARENTING emphasizes the role of the parent: read MeSH definitions but if in doubt use term of author