parenting skill

collocation in English

meaningsofparentingandskill

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parenting
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpeə.rən.tɪŋ/
us
/ˈper.ən.t̬ɪŋ/
the raising of children and all the responsibilities and activities that are involved ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofparentingandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I ask him to consider that inadequate parenting skills often lead to antisocial behaviour.
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Parenting skills do not arrive with the baby; they have to be learned.
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Parents who experienced poor parenting can nevertheless be helped to overcome that legacy and develop parenting skills themselves.
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However, there is such a low level of investment in parenting skills in this country that, unfortunately, few parents in need benefit.
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The family support grant scheme is intended to develop more positive parenting skills, which will go some way towards addressing people's concerns.
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The third feature is discovery-based, insightorientedparentingskillfacilitation.
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For each scale, lower scores indicate lower levels ofparentingskill.
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Experience shows that there can be considerable work done inparentingskillcourses.
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I accept that there is a degree to which theparentingskilloften crosses gender.
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A dynamic approach would use variables that capture early parenting skills that are conducive to optimal developmental outcomes within a particular cultural context.
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When the men and women in the intervention emphasizing parenting issues showed improved parenting skills, we observed no comparable improvement in their marital interaction.
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Parenting skills training sessions were held in the boys' homes by the same four professionals who conducted the social and problem solving sessions at school.
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In the second, a psychoeducational model of intervention that focused on didactic parenting skills training and fostering increased social supports was provided.
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Other symptoms of untreated mood disorders (poor concentration, anhedonia) make learning effective parenting skills and enjoying one's child a difficult task.
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Maternal deprivation causes a female infant to grow up with deficits not only in peer interactions but in her parenting skills as well.
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Results indicate that over the course of the intervention, improved parenting skills related to decreased child aggression.
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The cumulativerisk framework is based on the idea that a monotonic association exists between the number of risk factors experienced by individuals and their parenting skills.
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Interventions included a classroom-based social skills program, a playground behavioral program, a school - parent communication component, and 6-week groups for parents focused on behaviorally oriented parenting skills.
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But when caregivers are effective at adjusting their parenting skills to match the child's temperament or idiosyncratic communicative behaviors, we see higher levels of interactional synchrony.
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Some of those parenting skills are indeed skills and there is no reason why, in principle, they cannot be taught.
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