The Science Behind Your Child’s Tantrums: And how to nip them in the bud before they start
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- SPACE: Helping Kids with Anxiety: Psychologist, Eli Lebowitz and his colleagues developed a method for training parents to support anxious children known as SPACE: Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. In a study of 124 children and their parents, Yale researchers examined whether the SPACE intervention was effective in treating children’s anxiety. Although the children never met with a therapist, results found that SPACE was just as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy in treating childhood anxiety disorders.
- Kids and Politics: During the 2016 presidential election, researchers interviewed 187 kindergarten through fifth graders one month before and one month after the election. Results found that nearly 80 percent were able to correctly identify the candidates, and 74 percent described at least one of their policies. Researchers also found that kids’ political knowledge was sometimes limited or incorrect and influenced by their parents’ views.
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