Child Care - Science topic

If White privilege is based on societal advantages for white people. It's unlikely to disappear entirely because societal ideas about race can persist even if everyone looked the same. The goal is to create a society where race doesn't affect opportunity. We can work towards this by promoting diversity and equal treatment.

Violence towards children never lead to good results

Adults who suffered violence in childhood usually abuse others around them

Talking and explaining and discussing a bad behavior and explaining serious consequences would be much better understood and internalized much more than an aggressive approach.

Also violence infront of other poeple will definitely be modelled by the abused child with peer groups or as an adult.

Think that a multilevel/hierachical model is needed. Level 2: country (context). Level 1: people (composition). Evaluate the variance distribution between levels: is the variance intra-countries higher than inter-countries? Or, having the random effect (context) known, what about the correlation of the fixed effect (SES)?

Lawrence Kohlberg expanded on the earlier work of cognitive theorist Jean Piaget to explain the moral development of children, which he believed follows a series of stages. Kohlberg defined three levels of moral development: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. Each level has two distinct stages.

The parents are cushioning their children from adverse effects of the covid pandemic by sparing quality time, discussing their issues, and having healthy discourse on their personal and professional life. Even then the children are devoting more time with their parents, but they still miss their friends, school-life and outdoor games. To further cope up with the stress caused by these factors, the parents need to be quite patient and composed to deal with any kind of mood swings, irritability, and impulsiveness displayed by their children. It is a very tough time for both the parents and children to adapt to changing lifestyles. However, we should always focus on our mental health and well-being. Certainly, some kind of Yoga, exercises, meditation, Ayurvedic medicines, Herbal and home-made healthy food items have made our children stronger to deal with the adversities. We need to learn to manage disharmony and restore the balanced lifestyle.

Give tasks which they can perform on time limit. So that they can spent their time on other activities such as meditation, play with child, exercise, etc.

Obedience and politeness to all

Its complex due to stringent conditions and measures a researcher must undergo to conduct such study with minors. Research that has to do with minors relating to health issues, psychological issues, emotional abuses and mental health issues etc are very difficult to ascertain with minors as your subjects. One need to undergo a thorough ethical guidelines and assessment procedures.

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Thank you all respected scholars for your response

See A. Lazaridis: Dynamic Systems in Management Science. Design, Esstimation and Control, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 252-268

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Any baby born with a hepatitis B positive household member should have Hepatitis B vaccination within the first 24 hours of being born.

To me the real question is: why teach arts to 1-2 years old? Never too early to start?...

The first years need is to be cared for, to attaint a secure socioemotional development and all the skills that make possible to relate to the envirnment (physical and social)

Obviosly if we create experiences that relate to esthetics and arts no doubt the child will be learning, ... just like anything else

Too often early education is based on the epistemologic fields, at least it is so in my country, and the curricula of the different sciences is simplified and adapted to shorter and shorter ages. But in doing so we forget the child, in my opinion it is necessary to adopt a developemental perspective, especially at these ages. In doing so will be encouraging their senses, autonomy, and their expression

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Curious which you think is desirable? Automatic extension or giving person the choice? I've known women who didn't want to delay.

I fully agree with Ben that saturation is the test.

Adding to this, I would remind that purposive sampling is predominantly, if not always, for qualitative research. In principle, for any qualitative research, numbers do not matter any more. Numbers may relate to the achievement of data saturation but it is not always the case. It is the relevance of the participants that contributes most to saturation. For example, in your situation, your participants are parents with girls who are out of school and the girls who are out of school. We have to acknowledge the fact that some participants are thoughtful, reflective, articulate, expressive but some other participants are the opposite. If you are unlucky and always get the latter, then it is likely that even though you interview a dozen, and you start to get similar responses, it is still not the sign of saturation. Getting the 'right' respondents is more important than the sample size. Depending on the nature of your topic, sometimes you capture a dozen of great categories from 3-5 participants, but sometimes you end up getting three to five categories from a dozen of participants. Starting to see similar/same categories is not always the sign of saturation, and I would call it 'pseudo-saturation' if the premature appearance of same categories is due to the lower level of respondents. I would not go into details about 'level' of respondents to avoid deviation.

  Hi David,

That's a tough one. You could create a rubric of parental monitoring behaviours and use this for behavioural coding under direct field observation. That methodology would best suit a qualitative study.

On the other extreme, you would most likely need to developed your own scale from the few existing scales with a "parental monitoring" factor. That in itself is challenging and you may only be able to establish some basic evidence for the psychometric properties, and they may not be robust enough to deploy in a subsequent quantitative study.

You maybe able to use SEQ and work with some of the parenting style scales and parental monitoring, but you would still need a decent scales to measure that...

You could also use parental monitoring behavioural coding approach mentioned above and also use a parenting style scale in a mixed methodology study design. You can use non-parametric stats if you don't want to recruit enough participants to use parametric stats.

Hope that helps,

dr.j

We are not using any such devices. But will be happy to know about.

Dear Mahboube,

Some work has also been done by Valerie Rice in this area. She has a chapter in Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (4th Ed. 2012, Ed. Salvendy, Wiley Press) and a book about Ergonomics for Children with a chapter on 'playground safety'. Citations are shown below:

Rice, Valerie J. Berg. "Designing for Children." Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Fourth Edition (2012): 1472-1483. 

Lueder, Rani, and Valerie J. Berg Rice, eds. Ergonomics for Children: Designing products and places for toddler to teens. CRC Press, 2007.

Regards,

Vincent Duffy

An interesting question. I think it is probably useful to start from an alternative standpoint, i.e. what beneficial effects does early education have for children? There is a good deal of useful research on this topic most notably the EPPE (Effective Provision of Pre School Eductaion) project in the UK. This research demonstrates that high quality early education has beneficial effects on children in terms of their social, emotional and educational development, and that these beneficial effects last well on into children's later school years. The obvious corollary of this would be that children not exposed to such early education have poorer development. In the UK virtually all 4 year olds now attend some form of early education whether in reception classes in primary schools or in pre schools. Equally a very high proportion of 3 year olds also attend early education and early education for the most disadvantaged 2 year olds is also now being trialled. The key factors are that such early education, in order to have such beneficial effects, must be of high quality and the child must attend regularly. It would also seem that early education has the most beneficial effects upon the most disadvantaged children.

Hello Clodagh

I think (from the Google Scholar abstract) that this article does mention Ireland, but I don't know in what context. You could try requesting the full text:

Colton, M., & Roberts, S. (2007). Factors that contribute to high turnover among residential child care staff. Child & Family Social Work, 12(2), 133-142.

This is another possibly useful paper, also available on ResearchGate, but again you would need to request the full text:

Holland, S., Faulkner, A., & Perez‐del‐Aguila, R. (2005). Promoting stability and continuity of care for looked after children: A survey and critical review. Child & Family Social Work, 10(1), 29-41.

It might be worth looking at p.52 in this book:

Clough, R., Bullock, R., & Ward, A. (2006). What Works in Residential Child Care. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

I see that Amanda Mainey is referenced; she edited this pdf (below):

Mainey, A., & Crimmens, D. (Eds.). (2006). Fit for the Future?: Residential Child Care in the United Kingdom. National Children's Bureau.

I did a general search in Google Scholar - it looks as if the has written quite extensively on this subject:

Good luck with your dissertation,

very best wishes,

Mary

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1. We should create awareness and importance of the vaccine in community through mass media,FGDS and there must be clear messages that how they can prevent their child to get sick from many diseases which can impact the   child growth, school performance along with financial burden on the family.

2.There should provision of vaccines to the nearest health facility, for extreme remote areas we should develop a team who can give the vaccines at household level for those  who are unable to reach the facility.

Coaching is a key form of individualized professional development at all levels of education. To be successful, though, the coaches should be well trained in a research-based coaching model. The Evocative Coaching method, with its person-centered, no-fault, strengths-based orientation, has been well received among early childhood educators as a good fit with early childhood educational philosophies. The Center for School Transformation offers training in an interactive virtual classroom so that anyone can access the training without having to travel to a live event. 

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Stress is one of the factors responsible for changes in the health and wellness of the individual that can lead to disease and death .

We know that stress can originate from external or internal sources . External are those represented by what happens to us in life or the people with whom we deal , ie , overwork or unpleasant , family disharmony , accidents , death , stress, violence , fear , illness , etc. .

The internal causes are those that relate to how we think, the beliefs and values ​​and how we interpret the world around us .

It is crucial to discover the cause of the problem and develop coping strategies to deal not only with this episode, but also with future threats from excessive stress .

Factors affecting the quality of life in nursing work are: emotional distress , mood disorders , guilt , sadness and tiredness mainly by lack of sleep . As for stress at work, the possible causes are: the double workday , are in the resistance with a predominance of psychological symptoms . About dissatisfaction are related to working conditions and low wages , followed by interpersonal relationships . Have physical and emotional distress due to patient care , causes pain / suffering to the point of transferring these feelings for the home , and as a result of misfit, come absenteeism . On the other , in some hospitals there is an absence of risks related to culture , the lack of guidance , lack of trust between the professional and leadership . Moreover dissatisfaction , which results from the accumulation of activities ; small number of professional , long working hours , function overloading, high level of stress in staff supervision and lack of personal protective equipment .

It depends on the age of the child when serum is taken. If an infant is IgM positive for rubella within the first 2-3 weeks of life, it must be due to congental infection. The incubation period for rubella is 2-3 weeks; therefore any child older than that could have contracted rubella post-natally. The half life for IgM positivity for congenital infections is 3 months. Any child that is IgM postiive in the first few months of life and has defects associated with congenital rubella infection has congenital rubella syndrome. Defects include hearing loss, eye defects, heart defects, and low birth weight, among others. It is unlikely that one could differentiate between a child with congenital rubella infection only (no defects present in the child, most likely to occur when the mother is infected late in the pregnancy) and post-natal rubella using serum collected 3 weeks or later after the child was born. This mainly applies to countries where rubella is still endemic and risk of exposure after birth is high. Also, check the mother's immune status. If the mother is IgG negative, it could not have been a congenital infection.

I appreciate George and Robert's answers and I can only add my own speculations and a few of my own questions. My first wondering is did you consider using the Adult Attachment Interview? I am more familiar with AAI than I am with the Narrative Attachment Assessment so cannot comment on that aspect of your design. My other methodological questions resonate with Robert's observation about the timing of the parental self-efficacy measure. As a mother who suffered post-partum depression and as a psychologist, I can echo Robert's concern that 2 months seems far too close to the birth (another variable would be how traumatic the birthing process was as perceived by the mother rather than what the level of support was). Also since giving birth to a child is such a complex multi-variate experience with huge existential dimensions, I believe a reductionistic approach (quantitiative methodology), is often not adequate to capture depth of experience (more qualitative data would elucidate the nuances of these experiences), I believe there are many dimensions that have not been measured or articulated even in popular literature that compound post-partum depression or even 'healthy attachment' after birthing. For example, there is a variable which I would call grief that is involved in any birth that is not measured or socially acknowledged. Many mothers are taken aback by the natural grief that accompanies giving birth to a child (trauma of labour, the loss of 'freedom' when a dependent comes into ones life, the feelings of inadequacy, the weight of responsibility to care for another human, sleep deprivation, hormonal variability, lactation difficulties, emotional impact on intimate partner relationships, reduction in marital satisfaction, etc.... all the existential questions that swirl around in a young vulnerable mothers mind). When this grieving is soothed within a IWM of a comforting attachment (for example, role model of a nurturing mother in the past) then, I would postulate, the mixed emotions of motherhood subside along a continuum of feelings of parental self-efficacy.