OBJECTIVES We examined how Hispanic parents' income and education, combined with their nativity status, influenced the body mass index (BMI) of their children, compared with non-Hispanic White children and their parents. METHODS We used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 to estimate linear growth curve models of children's initial BMI in kindergart...

In a three-year longitudinal study 471 children were classified, based on their performances on arithmetic tests in first and second grade, as having persistent arithmetic disabilities (AD), persistent low achieving (LA), persistent typical achieving, inconsistent arithmetic disabilities (DF1) or inconsistent low achieving in arithmetic. Significant differences in the performances on the magnit...

The validity of three subtests of the Dynamic Indicators for Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) was investigated for kindergarten children in a large urban school district. A stratified, random sample of 330 participants was drawn from an entire cohort of kindergarten children. Letter Naming Fluency, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency, and Nonsense Word Fluency evidenced significant concurrent and ...

The research is concerned with the problems of knowledge purification kindergarten children by verifying its aims, identifying among first level and second children, differences between males females in variable purification. community included state private kindergartens Baghdad governorate, on two sides, Karkh Rusafa, for six districts academic year 2022-2023. After making test according to s...

Al-Karimah Kindergarten (TK) Is one of the kindergarten schools in handsome sub-district Pekanbaru City. The number children participating healthy exercise is 25 people, this due to maintaining their health after pandemic. implementation children's motor guidance service activities through gymnastics at aims improve skills gymnastics. This carried out Hero University research and community cent...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Several observational studies have revealed that children who receive nonparental childcare are at increased risk of obesity. However, this may be due to unmeasured confounding or selection into different types of childcare. It is not well established whether this association reflects a causal effect of childcare attendance on obesity risk. We examined the effect of at...

Food insecurity has been associated with diverse developmental consequences for U.S. children primarily from cross-sectional studies. We used longitudinal data to investigate how food insecurity over time related to changes in reading and mathematics test performance, weight and BMI, and social skills in children. Data were from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, a pros...