Mental/Emotional Health

BBC article – “Is the Western way of raising kids weird?”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 28, 2021February 28, 2021in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

2021 February. Kelly Oakes. BBC - (news web article): "Is the Western way of raising kids weird?"Expectations for sleep, togetherness, bed time, independence are different in different cultures. The key to thinking outside the Western box might be to remember…

Adolescent Health – protective and risk factors: Findings from the US Add Health Study

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 10, 2015May 16, 2020in Attachment, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc.

The quotes below come from the Monograph, "Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth"Download "The home environment makes a difference in the health of American youth. When teens feel connected to their families and…

“Gender equity” style parenting resulted in more mental health problems for kids

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2012May 13, 2020in Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden

March 2012: Study published in International Journal for Equity in Health of "gender equity" parenting (both parents spending equal amounts of time at jobs and doing child care) in Sweden finds children have more mental health problems with gender equal…

Ottawa Citizen Article: Comments from Neufeld

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 12, 2012May 13, 2020in Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Play

Feb 2012: Ottawa Citizen article "All work and no play . . . Is not good for the developing brain, says psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld." Neufeld says, "The only resistance I get is from policy-makers."

Association for Psychological Science, “How Devoted Moms Buffer Kids In Poverty“.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 19, 2011June 11, 2020in Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Mental/Emotional Health, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

This peer-reviewed study indicates that maternal nurturing and not only socio-economic status is associated with better health outcomes. The study was led by UBC psychologist Dr Gregory Miller. Miller works in exactly the field UBC’s HELP claims expertise in, yet…

Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing: August 21, 2011

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 21, 2011May 30, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc.

August 21, 2011. The New York Times -article (web): "The Kids Are Not All Right" by UBC law professor, Joel Bakan, author of “The Corporation” and the new “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children”

From the Gordon Neufeld Institute:

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 27, 2011May 30, 2020in Attachment, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time

Neufeld on the Vancouver riots:2011. Gordon Neufeld. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Uncovering the Roots of Delinquency" Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing:2011. Deborah MacNamara. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Making Sense of the Senseless" Children, Teens and Technology (broken link)

BBC news item: Parents giving children alcohol ‘fuels binge drinking’

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 15, 2009June 16, 2020in Mental/Emotional Health

Dec 17, 2009. BBC News - article (web): "Parents giving children alcohol ‘fuels binge drinking’"

Social policy “ruining childhood”: Childhood is being undermined by a string of “oppressive demands” from ministers disguised as social policy, experts have claimed

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 17, 2009June 16, 2020in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Play

Social policy “ruining childhood”: Childhood is being undermined by a string of “oppressive demands” from ministers disguised as social policy, experts have claimed. June 17, 2009 web article in Telegraph.co.uk

Interview with Canadian Dr. Elliot Barker on Roots of Criminality

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 25, 2008June 17, 2020in Attachment, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health

Interview with Canadian Dr. Elliot Barker (Natural Child - web article), child psychiatrist and founder of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He sees lack of empathetic parenting and consumerism as the roots of criminality.