In recent years, claims about children's developing brains have become central to the formation of child health and welfare policies in England. While these policies assert that they are based on neuro-scientific discoveries, their relationship to neuroscience itself has been debated. However, what is clear is that they portray a particular understanding of children and childhood, one that is m...

Objectives: Parent-child interaction has a great impact on the early years of a child's life. A Parent's knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward a parent's responsibilities and a child's developmental norms can influence the quality of a child's development. Examining this issue is the purpose of this study. Methods: This study had two phases, the first phase of which was instrument de...

VOL. 24 / NO. 1 / SPRING 2014 41 Summary Children’s early social experiences shape their developing neurological and biological systems for good or for ill, writes Ross Thompson, and the kinds of stressful experiences that are endemic to families living in poverty can alter children’s neurobiology in ways that undermine their health, their social competence, and their ability to succeed in scho...

Handwriting of children in early grades is studied from the viewpoint of quantitatively measuring the development of handwriting individuality. Handwriting samples of children, in grades 2-4, writing a paragraph of text in both handprinted and cursive, collected over a period of 3 years, were analyzed using two different approaches: (i) characteristics of the word "and" and (ii) entire paragrap...

A strong case has been built in support of the importance of early child development based on the "new neuroscience."1–3 We now understand that health, emotional well-being and life success have their roots in early childhood. This has implications for all countries that are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child because each of these countries is responsible fo...