Annual Editions : Child Growth and

This 11th edition of Annual Editions: Child Growth & Development is a compilation of articles selected from the best of the public press including magazines, newspapers, and journals. The articles cover topics on learning in school; early cognitive development and parenting and family issues. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/), a student Web site that provides study support tools and links to related Web sites.

To the Reader

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Topic Guide

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Selected World Wide Web Sites

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UNIT 1 Conception to Birth

Unit Overview

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What Makes You Who You Are

2

(6)

Matt Ridley

Making Time for a Baby

8

(6)

Nancy Gibbs

Inside the Womb

14

(5)

J. Madeleine Nash

Treating the Tiniest Patients

19

(3)

Claudia Kalb

Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman's Eggs

22

(6)

Jessica Cohen

UNIT 2 Cognition, Language, and Learning

Unit Overview

26

(2)

Part A. Early Cognition and Physical Development

The Quest for a Super Kid

28

(4)

Jeffrey Kluger

Alice Park

Long-Term Recall Memory: Behavioral and Neuro-Developmental Changes in the First 2 Years of Life

32

(5)

Patricia J. Bauer

Evolution and Developmental Sex Differences

37

(5)

David C. Geary

Representation of Objects and Events: Why Do Infants Look So Smart and Toddlers Look So Dumb?

42

(4)

Rachel Keen

Do Young Children Understand What Others Feel, Want, and Know?

46

(6)

Angeline Lillard

Stephanie Curenton

Giftedness: Current Theory and Research

52

(4)

Ellen Winner

Part B. Learning in School

Preschool: The Most Important Grade

56

(4)

W. Steven Barnett

Jason T. Hustedt

How Should Reading Be Taught?

60

(5)

Keith Rayner

Barbara R. Foorman

Charles A. Perfetti

David Pesetsky

Mark S. Seidenberg

The `Re-Engineered' Child

65

(5)

Andrea Petersen

UNIT 3 Social and Emotional Development

Unit Overview

68

(2)

Part A. The Child's Feelings: Emotional Development

Emotional Intelligence: What the Research Says

70

(5)

Casey D. Cobb

John D. Mayer

Part B. Entry into the Social World: Peers, Play, and Popularity

Friendship Quality and Social Development

75

(4)

Thomas J. Berndt

What Ever Happened to Play?

79

(3)

Walter Kirn

Wendy Cole

Gender and Group Process: A Developmental Perspective

82

(4)

Eleanor E. Maccoby

Girls Just Want to Be Mean

86

(8)

Margaret Talbot

A Profile of Bullying

94

(8)

Dan Olweus

UNIT 4 Parenting and Family Issues

Unit Overview

100

(2)

Should You Stay Together for the Kids?

102

(8)

Walter Kirn

Contemporary Research on Parenting: The Case for Nature and Nurture

110

(15)

W. Andrew Collins

Eleanor E. Maccoby

Laurence Steinberg

E. Mavis Hetherington

Marc H. Bornstein

Who's in Charge Here?

125

(6)

Nancy Gibbs

In (Self-) Defense of the Fanatical Sports Parent

131

(3)

Gordon Marino

Spanking Children: Evidence and Issues

134

(4)

Alan E. Kazdin

Corina Benjet

Raising a Nation of Crybabies?

138

(5)

Laura Sessions Stepp

Why Our Kids Are Out of Control

143

(5)

Jacob Azerrad

Paul Chance

Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development

148

(7)

Greg J Duncan

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

The Moral Development of Children

155

(9)

William Damon

UNIT 5 Cultural and Societal Influences

Unit Overview

162

(2)

Part A. Social Issues

Tomorrow's Child

164

(3)

Jerry Adler

Getting Stupid

167

(5)

Bernice Wuethrich

How U.S. Children and Adolescents Spend Time: What it Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us About Their Development

172

(5)

Reed W. Larson

Parents or Pop Culture? Children's Heroes and Role Models

177

(9)

Kristin J. Anderson

Donna Cavallaro

How Many Fathers Are Best for a Child?

186

(3)

Meredith F. Small

Part B. Special Challenges

The Medication Merry-Go-Round

189

(5)

Kathryn Brown

Scars That Won't Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse

194

(6)

Martin H. Teicher

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Very Young Children: Early Signs and Interventions

200

(7)

Rebecca R. Fewell

Barbara Deutscher

Voices of the Children: We Beat and Killed People

207

(4)

Tom Maslind

Young and Bipolar

211

(8)

Jeffrey Kluger

Sora Song

Index

219

(3)

Test Your Knowledge Form

222

(1)

Article Rating Form

223

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