Study Shows Good Parenting = Good Kids & Vice Versa – Dave’s Diary

We see it all the time on television and movie crime stories, we hear about it for real on local radio & TV --criminal court defendants who plead for leniency because of issues they had in childhood with their parents.  Usually the grizzly old cops and legal beagles scowl and growl about political correctness and all this but a new study shows if you have issues you really can most likely blame your parents.

Researchers looked at 243 kids from low income families until they turned age 32. They studied how their mothers interacted with the kids during their first three years of life, and as they got older they asked the kids' teachers about each child's social skills and academic abilities.

Children with moms who practiced a more sensitive kind of parenting during their first three years of life went on to have more successful relationships and higher academic achievement compared to those whose mothers did not engage with them in this way. Sensitive moms responded to their child promptly, had positive interactions with their kid as well as made their child feel secure.

The overall effects of parenting could even been seen in the kids when they were age 30 or older. (Time)

So parents do have an impact but in the end, parents aren’t going to jail on your behalf!  Don’t do the crime and expect momma to do the time.