According to a new study, parents can contribute to a significant extent to behavior and social skills of their wards by being more involved with their children across elementary school.
This study was based on information related to 1,300 children from 10 U.S. cities who were followed from birth to fifth grade and was carried out under the guidance of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
From in.news.yahoo.com:
The study aimed at learning how parent involvement affects children’s academic, social, and emotional well-being in elementary school. The children studied were mostly White and about evenly divided by gender.
According to the findings, parents’ involvement – visits to the school, encouraging educational progress at home, remedied children’s problem behaviors (including both aggressive and disruptive behaviours as well as anxiety and depression. At the same time, their so-called pro-social skills (such as cooperation and self-control) improved.
Their involvement however, did not affect achievement possibly because it wasn’t specific to academic performance of the child.
“The study shows that parents continue to wield considerable influence on children’s development through elementary school,” according to the researchers. “Therefore, the study has implications for policies to encourage involvement.”
The study was published in the May/June 2010 issue of the journal Child Development.
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