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I was able to draw on the child-development work I had done in the Senate during the 1970s—about strengthening families and giving them the tools to take care of themselves.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I was able to draw on the child-development work I had done in the Senate during the 1970s—about strengthening families and giving them the tools to take care of themselves.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I was able to draw on the child-development work I had done in the Senate during the 1970s—about strengthening families and giving them the tools to take care of themselves.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The prevailing thinking among child-development experts is that this "talk" should actually be a dialogue that starts as soon as the child can speak and continues until the child reaches young adulthood.
To Skip the 'Talk' About Sex, Have an Ongoing Dialogue Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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This tunnel vision is easy to explain, according to Jay Belsky, a child-development psychologist at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Among these was Job Corps, to train urban youth; Vista, a kind of domestic Peace Corps; and Head Start, a child-development program.
Peace Corps Founder Shriver Dies at 95 Stephen Miller 2011
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(Jay Belsky, the child-development psychologist, has recently documented more than two dozen such studies.)
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Indeed, fathers typically aren't as upset as mothers by kids' tantrums or bad behavior, based on a 2009 survey of 1,615 parents by Zero to Three, a nonprofit child-development research and policy organization.
The Secret of Dads' Success Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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In the 1950s this work provided critical evidence for the emerging theory of infant attachment: a theory that, with its emphasis on rich, warm parent-child bonds and happy early experiences, still dominates child-development theory (and parenting books) today.
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The pediatrician W. Thomas Boyce, who has worked with many a troubled child in more than three decades of child-development research, says the orchid hypothesis “profoundly recasts the way we think about human frailty.”
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