Practical Strategies – Page 2

How Parents Can Use the Deferred Imitation Skill

January 7, 2024April 29, 2021 by Roxana

Reading Time: 2 minutes Deferred imitation is an astonishing skill that develops rapidly. A 13-month-old child can remember an event a week after a single exposure. By the time she is almost a year and a half, she can imitate an event four months after a single exposure. John Medina – Brain Rules for Baby Deferred imitation can shed light on how we construct our mental models and long-term memory, by studying how information is perceived, encoded, stored, recalled or retrieved. Through deferred imitation (repeat and practice the actions of others, either immediately or …

The Four Styles of Parenting

February 17, 2024March 21, 2021 by Roxana

Reading Time: 9 minutes Based on the research of Diana Baumrind, Eleanor Maccoby (extremely influential in child psychology and developmental psychology, her Wikipedia page is well worth a read) and John Martin, there are four types of parenting styles: Neglectful Parenting Low emotional support, low expectations Detached from a child’s feelings and behaviours As the name of this category implies, there is not much interaction between a neglectful parent and their children. Such parents are uninvolved in their children’s lives: they do not ask children about school, they do not know their children’s friends or spend much time with …