Parenting
Monday, March 24, 2008
Stressed Parents Equals Sick Kids
Stressed parents aren’t just damaging their own health - they may also be making their children more vulnerable to illness.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Teen Aggression May Really Be a State of Mind
For parents of emotionally combative teens, new research offers a powerful biological reason for all the family feuding—adolescent brain size. A team of Australian scientists has found that when key regions of the brain known for controlling emotions are bigger, boys and girls tend to be more aggressive and more persistent during their fights with Mom and Dad.
Amygdala • Anger • Brain • Parenting • Teenagers • (0) Comments • Permalink
Friday, February 22, 2008
Family context influences stress hormone
Continuous production of the stress hormone cortisol is affected by growing up in difficult situations, a study in Canada found. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found 40 percent of differences in cortisol production were genetically determined, but growing up in difficult family circumstances overrode this genetic effect.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
For women, marital distress means less relief from stress
That’s the suggestion from a new UCLA study that tracked levels of cortisol, a key stress hormone, among 30 Los Angeles married couples involved in one of our age’s trickiest juggling acts — raising kids when both parents work full time.
Children • Hormones • Parenting • Psychology • Relationships • Women • (0) Comments • Permalink
Friday, August 24, 2007
A parent’s depression can weigh heavy on children
A parent’s struggle with stress or depression can lower a child’s quality of life — and it could hinder an overweight youngster’s attempts to lose weight, too, University of Florida researchers say. Parent distress, peer bullying and childhood depression can propel a cycle that makes it more difficult for children to adopt healthier lifestyles.
Children • Depression • Obesity • Parenting • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Monday, August 20, 2007
Poll: Family Ties Key to Youth Happiness
So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, a little rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe some cash, or at least the car keys. Turns out the real answer is quite different. Spending time with family was the top answer to that open-ended question.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma
The link between environmental exposures and asthma has been clearly described, but a new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health finds a strong association between domestic violence and asthma. The study raises questions about the role of stress in the development of this common respiratory condition.
Anger • Children • Parenting • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Sunday, April 22, 2007
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Family turmoil and violence results in stress-induced physical problems in young
Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people. However, when they have responsive, supportive mothers, they do not experience these negative physiological changes, reports a new study from Cornell. But the research group also found that the cardiovascular systems of youths who are exposed to chronic and multiple risk factors are compromised, regardless of their mothers’ responsiveness.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Children Under Stress Develop More Fevers
Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclusion that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, unlike adults, whose function is decreased.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Children under stress develop more fevers
Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclusion that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, unlike adults, whose function is decreased.
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Study: Thousands of children still having major problems after Katrina
Up to 35,000 children—one-third of those across the Gulf Coast still displaced by Hurricane Katrina—are having major problems with mental health, behavior or school, a new study indicates. To make things worse, many of their parents are depressed as well, leaving them less able to help the children, said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness and president of the Children’s Health Fund, which conducted the study together.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Stress ‘harms brain in the womb’
Children whose mothers were stressed out during pregnancy are vulnerable to mental and behavioural problems like ADHD, mounting evidence suggests.
Children • Hormones • Parenting • Reproduction • Stress • Women • (1) Comments • Permalink
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Job stress can affect your children
Working parents might think they leave it at the office, but kids know better. Whether adults realize it or not, their job-related stress affects their children, scientists said here this week at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Over the past 30 years, time spent at the office has jumped 10 hours a week. And one in three employees in the United States reports feeling chronically overworked, said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute in New York.
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Stress More Common Among Younger Americans, Parents, Workers
Gallup’s annual Lifestyle poll finds more than 3 out of 4 Americans saying they sometimes experience stress in their daily life, including roughly 4 out of 10 who experience it “frequently.” However, most Americans say they have enough time to do what they want to do these days. Time and stress constraints particularly affect younger Americans, especially those between the ages of 30 and 49, parents of younger children, and working Americans.