Word: mother
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...very surprised,” says his mother, Hyesoo Albright...
...piano competition,” Albright remembers. “As an encore, I played my variations on Jeopardy.” Though he remembers winning these prizes, memories of his musical beginnings—at the tender age of three and a half—are fuzzy. His mother fills in the details...
Tell me about Charlotte, her mother. Charlotte is one of these conflicted mothers who thinks she truly is trying to do the best thing she can for her child, which I think many of us do. But unfortunately she's doing it with blinders on and she's not seeing the repercussions of her actions. Charlotte loves her daughter to death but, as often as is the case in America, she is completely financially strapped by caring for a disabled child. And insurance doesn't cover it. And she winds up figuring out, with the help of an attorney, that...
...initial analysis, Schmidt found that babies who spent more time in front of the TV performed worse on language and motor-skill tests at age 3 than those who watched less. But once Schmidt and her team controlled for other factors - the mother's educational status and household income - the relationship between TV-viewing and cognitive development disappeared. That means that TV-viewing alone did not appear to influence babies' brain development; a parent's education and finances mattered more. "Initially it looked like TV-viewing was associated with cognitive development," says Schmidt, "but in fact TV-viewing...
...study, also in J.A.M.A., found that nurse home visits were associated with a nearly 50% drop in rates of substantiated child abuse or neglect in new families and that visits increased the amount of time between a mother's first and second pregnancies. Rates of hypertension, which is known to interfere with fetal brain development, were also reduced. And mothers spent less time on welfare and worked more...