Peaceful Parenting Research
Children who have a positive attachment also learn more quickly, are more cooperative, and develop the social and emotional skills they will need to thrive in life.
Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University
Our ability to connect with our kids depends more on our interpretation of their behaviour, rather than the behaviour itself.
Jaswal VK, Dinishak J, Stephan C, Akhtar N (2020) Experiencing social connection: A qualitative study of mothers of nonspeaking autistic children. PLoS ONE 15(11): e0242661
One of many studies that shows praise is counter-productive to building internal motivation in kids.
Mueller, C. M., & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 33–52
A 2016 meta-study on spanking links this form of punishment with detrimental child outcomes.
Gershoff, E. T., & Grogan-Kaylor, A. (2016). Spanking and child outcomes: Old controversies and new meta-analyses. Journal of Family Psychology, 30(4), 453–469
One of many studies that shows praise is counter-productive to building internal motivation in kids.
Mueller, C. M., & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 33–52
Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance.
Mueller, C. M., & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(1), 33–52
A mindfulness and pro-social skills programme showed improvements in children’s social competence and academic outcomes.
Flook, L., Goldberg, S. B., Pinger, L., & Davidson, R. J. (2015). Promoting prosocial behavior and self-regulatory skills in preschool children through a mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum. Developmental psychology, 51(1), 44–51
Emotionally intelligent individuals show more adaptive responses to stressful situations than those with low EI.
Lea RG, Davis SK, Mahoney B, Qualter P. Does Emotional Intelligence Buffer the Effects of Acute Stress? A Systematic Review. Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 17;10:810
Demanding, rewarding or micromanaging help from kids undermines their natural intrinsic motivation to help.
Psychology Today
Parents who understand more about their child’s development have more positive interactions.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2016). Parenting matters: Supporting parents of children ages 0-8. National Academies Press.
A parent’s ability to understand their child’s experience links to quality of caregiving, attachment security and the child’s emotion regulation.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Mothers' and fathers' harsh verbal discipline at age 13 predicted an increase in adolescent conduct problems and depressive symptoms between ages 13 and 14.
Wang MT, Kenny S. Longitudinal links between fathers' and mothers' harsh verbal discipline and adolescents' conduct problems and depressive symptoms. Child Dev. 2014 May-Jun;85(3):908-923
The more person praise mothers used, the more children subsequently held an entity theory of intelligence and avoided challenging themselves.
Pomerantz EM, Kempner SG. Mothers' daily person and process praise: implications for children's theory of intelligence and motivation. Dev Psychol. 2013 Nov;49(11):2040-6
A brief intervention aimed at encouraging an empathic mindset about discipline halved student suspension rates over an academic year.
Jason A. Okonofua, David Paunesku, Gregory M. Walton. Brief intervention cuts suspension rates in half. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2016, 113 (19) 5221-5226
There is a positive influence of parents’ emotion coaching practices on children’s outcomes, i.e. persistence and enthusiasm.
Loop, L., Roskam, I. Do Children Behave Better When Parents’ Emotion Coaching Practices are Stimulated? A Micro-Trial Study. J Child Fam Stud 25, 2223–2235 (2016)
Training children in emotion comprehension improves their social cognition.
Veronica Ornaghi, Jens Brockmeier, Ilaria Grazzani. Enhancing social cognition by training children in emotion understanding: A primary school study Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2014).
