Parenting

More physical activity, less screen time link to better function

"Executive function underlies your ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors," said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign kinesiology and community health professor Naiman Khan, who led the study with graduate student Arden McMath and food science and human nutrition professor Sharon Donovan. "It includes abilities such as inhibitory control, which allows you to regulate your thoughts, emotions and behavior; working memory, by which you are able to hold information in mind long enough to accomplish a task; and cognitive flexibility, the adeptness with which you switch your attention between tasks or competing demands."

2022-10-23T09:47:09.511396+00:00 IST

Strict parenting can genetically lead children to depression

London [UK], October 22 (ANI): As a result of strict parenting, the way the body perceives the children's DNA might alter. Children who grow up with restrictions may have these modifications "hard-wired" into their DNA, increasing their biological risk of depression in adolescence and later in life.

2022-10-22T07:53:37.614637+00:00 IST

Maternal, paternal exercise in mice influences offspring's health

Washington [US], October 22 (ANI): A rat study led by Kristin Stanford, a physiology and cell biology researcher at The Ohio State University College of Medicine's Wexner Medical Center, gives new insights into how maternal and paternal activity enhances offspring's metabolic health.

2022-10-21T22:05:42.821209+00:00 IST

Strict parenting may genetically predispose child to depression

London [UK], October 18 (ANI): The way the body interprets the children's DNA can change as a result of strict parenting. Children who experience their parents as harshly can really experience these changes becoming "hard-wired" into their DNA, which increases their biological risk for depression in adolescence and later in life.

2022-10-18T17:50:47.417046+00:00 IST

Early self-regulation boost children's educational success: Study

Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): A study has shown that teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school has a positive long-term effect on their later educational success.

2022-10-16T17:14:52.520409+00:00 IST

Children's educational success can be boosted by self-regulation

Washington [US], October 14 (ANI): Teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school has a positive long-term effect on their later educational success, suggests the findings of a study by the universities of Zurich and Mainz.

2022-10-14T01:22:46.870987+00:00 IST

Exposure to accents helps children learn words: Study

Washington [US], October 12 (ANI): Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when learning words in unfamiliar accents from other children Bilingualism, on the other hand, did not lead to corresponding effects in vocabulary learning.

2022-10-12T13:53:00.105768+00:00 IST

Families less stressed when they eat meals together: Research

Washington [US], October 11 (ANI): Nearly all parents believe that their family experiences less stress when they frequently meet over a meal, and 84% of the 1,000 U.S. individuals countrywide questioned in September 2022 for the American Heart Association's Healthy for GoodTM programme by Wakefield Research express this sentiment.

2022-10-11T11:32:06.359833+00:00 IST

Study: Mother's mood can impact children's speech development

Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): According to research, postnatal depressive mood can have an impact on children's development and speech. However, it was previously unknown how this impairment manifests itself in infants' early language development.

2022-10-08T10:34:18.163249+00:00 IST

Baby's ability to speak is influenced by mother's mood

Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): Analysis has shown that postnatal depressive mood can also affect the development of children and their speech. However, until now it was unclear exactly how this impairment manifests itself in early language development in infants.

2022-10-07T16:33:44.552252+00:00 IST

Parenting practices in teen years set the stage for closeness

Washington [US], October 5 (ANI): High-quality parenting practices in adolescence lay the foundation for close parent-child relationships when the children become young adults, according to new research.

2022-10-05T08:12:12.380985+00:00 IST

Study discovers how babies learn contrastive languages

Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): According to a study, infants can identify the majority of sounds soon after birth, and by the age of one, they start to become language-specific listeners.

2022-09-24T06:44:59.300164+00:00 IST

Babies identify taste, smell in their mother's womb itself: Study

Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence that babies react differently to different smells and tastes while in the womb by observing their facial expressions.

2022-09-23T08:08:07.663687+00:00 IST

Watching Tv with your child might help in their brain development

Washington [US], September 22 (ANI): A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology investigated the influence of passive screen use on a young child's cognitive development. It discovered that screen exposure - whether from a TV or a mobile device - might be beneficial depending on the context in which it's viewed.

2022-09-22T09:01:12.667590+00:00 IST

Activated carbon might lead to odourless diapers: Research

Washington [US], September 22 (ANI): According to recent research from the University of Gothenburg, activated carbon may help erase the smell of urine from diapers. Experiments with the odour molecule p-cresol reveal that activated carbon, which is primarily composed of the carbon variation graphene, may lock in odour rather than release it into the environment.

2022-09-22T08:50:10.647644+00:00 IST

Study finds how babies learn contrastive linguistics

Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): Infants can distinguish most sounds soon after birth, and by age one, they start to become language-specific listeners. However, researchers are still trying to figure out how babies recognise which acoustic dimensions of their language are contrastive, a linguistic term that describes differences between speech sounds that can change the meanings of words. In English, for example, [b] and [d] are contrastive because changing the [b] in 'ball' to a [d] creates a different word, 'doll.'

2022-09-20T05:19:33.033609+00:00 IST

Study reveals that children learn from observation and experiment

Washington [US], September 12(ANI): Children learn by seeing and experimenting on their own. They also learn from what others say to them, particularly adults and authority figures such as their parents and teachers. When children discover something unexpected, they seek out more information by asking questions or testing claims. Previous research indicates that whether children investigate adults' surprise assertions varies by age, with children over the age of six being more likely to seek out extra information than children aged four and five. However, there has been little research into why children seek information after being given something startling by adults.

2022-09-12T09:22:20.574413+00:00 IST

Pregnancy stress associated with negative emotions in babies

Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Pregnant women who had more changes had infants that were more fearful, sad, and distressed, according to the researchers.

2022-09-11T13:32:06.507380+00:00 IST

If untreated, ACL injury can be debilitating

Pennsylvania [United States], September 9 (ANI): According to a study, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, a form of a knee injury that occurs most often during sports, is growing more common in children and teenagers. When surgery is advised for adolescents and teenagers with ACL injuries, the procedure should be performed as soon as possible. However, children and teenagers whose parents speak a language other than English are twice as likely to have postponed surgery.

2022-09-09T01:41:05.272912+00:00 IST

Pregnant woman's stress can link to negative emotions in babies

Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): A study has found that pregnant women who had bigger fluctuations in had infants with more fear, sadness and distress.

2022-09-08T17:39:16.947008+00:00 IST

Facebook, Instagram addiction in adolescents linked to inequality

Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): According to research, adolescents from deprived backgrounds are more likely to report an addiction to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social media.

2022-09-08T00:45:41.325121+00:00 IST