Raising Well-Adjusted Children

The opposite of telling a child they work hard instead of telling them they are "smart." Tell a child they are a good person when they do good things so that they internalize morality.

Speaking involves not just motor functions in the brain, but auditory, suggesting sensory inputs for the brain are not segregated.

And that attentional improvement rolls over into other areas of life.

Firm Immediate Reliable Safe Tolerant punishment is best for children, when there is not opportunity to praise good behavior.

2,100 words per hour in a variety of words. Babies are listening.

Schooling appears to be the most influential factor in training memory in children, but parents can do more by coaching children to remember things and build narratives as a tool for memory.

An impossible ideal, but something to aspire too?

Controlling for socioeconomic status does show that children whose parents are higher on the education ladder will have better grammar; however, parenting style is a much better predictor of a child's improvement than income.

Begin stimulating the child early, provide as much quantity of language stimulation as possible, and pay attention to the quality of language, making it age-appropriate and clearly enunciated.

Two charts of when to expect certain motor skill achievements in infants in the first year and some months.

It is important to encourage inhibited children to challenge their fears and adventure into the world.

The "terrible twos" is a period of conflict because the infant is developing a theory of mind and they are learning that other people do not share the same likes and dislikes as themselves; therefore, they test these differences.

The game forces children to focus and streamline their memory processes, resulting in an IQ increase of five points.

To prevent them from being to clingy later in life.

A study measuring children's self-control found a correlation between low self-control and problems later in life.