Pre-School Information for Parents

“a person must be different to others, even his mother or father. So that will always support the identity of a child ”

Sometimes we hear about the respect for the identity of each person and therefore each child.

However, sometimes not clear what is identity. Francoise Dolto, French psychoanalyst, defines identity as: “It is both the son of his parents and have a gendered history. The name, male or female, is significant in this story.

When a child knows this may coexist with others and that the danger to a human being, child or adult, is losing its identity side by side, making himself equal to the other. The child, a person must be different to others, even his mother or father. So that will always support the identity of a child.

The child must know who is the son of so and so, brother or sister … this so that the child is a certainty that it will sink in the depths of his being, and that is expressed and evidenced in all their relationships.

When the child has achieved its identity can communicate, interact and even compete with another, without risk of losing their own personality.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Disease Prevention Legacy for Children launched a series of longitudinal studies, randomized controlled to examine the potential to improve child development through programs designed to influence the behavior of parents.

* The early years (birth to age 5) are crucial for cognitive development and social / emotional. Parents play a critical role in the development of their children and are responsible for the environment of their children.

* Among the costs to society that represents the optimal child development are not a risk to health and safety over the long term costs for care in non-family households, school programs, health care, social assistance, reduced productivity and costs to ensure compliance with the law.

* The principal question is the Legacy Project for Children is: Are the children in intervention groups do better in their development than children in other comparison groups?

* Theoretical: Parents can have a positive influence on the development of their children. They will have greater success in adopting and maintaining appropriate behavior to supplement their child’s development if they receive support for these behaviors in a group of like-minded people and feel part of a larger community to which they are themselves.

* First two research sites: The University of Miami and University of California at Los Angeles.

And research strategies for Children Legacy include:
* A study randomized, controlled design with 120 families with intervention and 120 comparison families in each of the two sides, total of 480 families.
* The intervention focuses on the behaviors of parents and is designed for parents to be more sensitive and responsive interaction between parents and children, emotional and behavioral rules, and verbal and cognitive stimulation.
* The intervention will focus on families with children from birth to 5 years.
* The intervention activities include both group meetings between parents and between parents and children, home visits, and participation in events and activities.
* The participating families are those in which the children, on average, generally fall below national standards in a range of developmental variables.
* The process, cost, and results both short and long term will be recorded.