We need to do a much better job of supporting those families than we do now. I think that would make children\u2019s direct experience and learning within that family better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are able to recognize the children than are going to be hard for their parents to parent, they\u2019re the kinds of vulnerabilities that we now know about. They\u2019re behavioural vulnerabilities where they\u2019re tough kids, they\u2019re easy to anger, they\u2019re difficult to deal with. So we know that. We know about these kids who have language problems. So, it\u2019s harder for them to learn language, to learn those skills of communication, and so they\u2019re harder to parent. We know from the genetic literature, and we\u2019ve been finding this as well, that kids with particular polymorphisms are more vulnerable to adverse environmental influences like this disadvantage that I\u2019m talking about, or like the parents being angry and irritable within the family context or the parents not being sensitive to the kids. Certain kids will respond to that more negatively than other kids will and those vulnerabilities are both behavioural and underneath that behavioural element are probably a whole series of things. There are genetic vulnerabilities; there are also how the children have developed in utero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We know that kids who are very low birth weight are more neuro-developmentally vulnerable to those psychosocial adversities that I study. And so, through all of that we can really say this child\u2019s going to need help, and we can do that pretty early on. I think we should be doing that much earlier than we are doing it, and really supporting parents, because as soon as they\u2019ve got difficult kids, kids who are learning more slowly or who don\u2019t have the language or who are much more difficult and irritable to handle then the parenting becomes more of a problem because the parents are, it\u2019s so hard to handle that kid, so we should right in those early early ages, we should be putting those supports in for families and I think those supports are two kinds. I think they\u2019re one kind of support is child care and is early schooling for kids, and I think as a society that\u2019s something we should be thinking about. I think the other kind of support is really intervention for parents, to help those parents understand what those kids are going through. To help them get inside the minds of the children and be able to, through that understanding, to support the kids more effectively so that you don\u2019t set up these patterns of real troubled relationships between parents and kids because we know that those troubled relationships are what predict over the whole life course how children manage in their life, do you see\u2026too early? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We need to do a much better job of supporting those families than we do now. I think that would make children\u2019s direct experience and learning within that family better. We are able to recognize the children than are going to be hard for their parents to parent, they\u2019re the kinds of vulnerabilities that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1055","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}