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Title: Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Author: Date Published: October 17, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It gives a brief explanation of what ADHD is, and it has many link which guide you to stories, research, data information, recommendations, scientific articles, and many other things. How This Influenced My Thinking: There's so much information on ADHD, and helpful links and material to help people that may have ADHD. Credibility of Source: It seems credible, and all the links have authors and dates on them as well.

Title:Dr. Spock: Cultural Differences in Parenting Author: Dr. Benjamin Spock Date:n.d Why relevant and summary: This article is an excerpt from Dr. Spock's book and he gives insight on the role of parents and culture in a child's life. How has this influenced my thinking: It convinces me more that we should raise our children not only as individuals who should strive to make themselves better and successful but also to feel as members of the society and its contributors. Why credible: This is an excerpt from a published book.

Title: Dealing with others Author: Rick Green Date: 2010 Why relevant and summary: It is a funny short article that deals with how to answer questions and misconceptions about ADHD and keep your cool. It is aimed to people who have the diagnosis and struggle to explain their behavior and challenges to others. How has this influenced my thinking: I really found it very interesting the advice given, and i think these rules can be applied to anything people have misconceptions about. Why credible: This article was written for the ADHD.org website.

Title: Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Author: Kay C. Wood, Harlan Smith, Daurice Grossniklaus Date Published: 2001 Why Relevant and Summary: Explains Piaget's stages of cognitive development and describes educational implications. It also details what opponents of Piaget's theory have to say. How This Influenced My Thinking: Helps me understand how to communicate and teach preoperational children. Credibility of Source: High (Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, University of Georgia)

Title: Praise, encouragement, and rewards while raising your toddler Author: Raising Children Network Date Published: 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives multiple ways to connect and help the social development of your toddler. It gives examples of how a parent should praise, encourage, and reward their children. I also like this website because it included videos and demonstrations of what a parent could do while raising their toddlers. How This Influenced My Thinking: This reinforces my understanding of how much attention toddlers need from their parents during their development in order to increase their own development. Credibility of Source: I browsed the whole website and all information seems accurate and it has a lot of good examples and ideas.

Title: Attachment Theory - John Bowlby Author: Counseling Resource, http://www.counsellingtutor.com/ (YouTube) Date Published: 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This video gives the history and overview of John Bowlby and his impact of attachment theory. Part 2 goes into Mary Ainsworth's addition to Bowlby's work. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helped me gain a better understanding of what occurs in development based on the 4 types of attachment. Credibility of Source: 7; gives credible references

Title: What About the Children Author: Strathearn, L. et al. (2009) Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: Gives clear detail by people who stay on top of current research on the best way to nurture babies How This Influenced My Thinking: I think everyone should do everything possible to put infants in constant contact with their mom's for as long as possible to develop loving secure people capable of mature relationships. Credibility of Source: The people on the board have very good creditials.

Title: Cognitive Development Author: No Author Date Published: N.D.  Why Relevant and Summary: It gives great incite to the cognitive development of toddlers. How this influenced my thinking:It gave me a better understand of toddlers behavior. Credibility of Source: This article seems credible, it from parents.com

Title: 10 Ways to Raise a Grateful kid Author: Homa Tavangar Date Published: ND Why Relevant and Summary: This article is very helpful if one is doing Assignment 9 on "Parenting a Toddler". It gives several examples on how to make your child grateful for everything and in the process it also helps children to be more social and overcome shyness. How this influenced my thinking: This article was very helpful. I was aware of all of the examples but it definitely made me put in action the examples whenever I have a toddler, because I definitely want them to be well educated and respectful. Credibility of Source: This article seems credible, since it's from PBS Parents

Title: Attachment Theory Author: Kendra Cherry Date Published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: It is relevant because it discusses the importance of attachment. It also describes the components of attachment. It also discusses several different characteristics of attachment. How this influenced my thinking: This influenced my thinking because I hadn't realized how important attachment is to a child.

Title: Social Development Author: Growing Miracles Date Published: 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it talks about the social development and all the aspects of what a toddler learns in this stage of life. It talks about communicating, sharing, putting the child in home settings and setting limits for the child. How This Influenced My Thinking: It influences my thinking because it makes me want to go back to when my children were small so that I can teach them differently than how they were taught. Credibility of Source: I think it's credible because even though it was reprinted with permission, the information is similar to that of research.

Title: Parenting Toddlers Author: Carmen Benton Date Published: N/D Why relevant and Summary: Because it is about parenting a toddler. How this influenced my thinking: Leaned different skills to parent a toddler. Credibility of source: Different sources cited

Title: Attachment, Relationships, Connecting Author: Dr. Jessica Zucker Date Published: 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Goes in depth about what creates bonds between child and mother and how those relationships affect circumstances later in life How This Influenced My Thinking: It explained how working models are formed in early childhood and how they affect relationships with others Credibility of Source: very credible- Dr. Zucker specializes in early parent-child bonding

Title:Attachment, Motherhood and Mental Health Author:Jessica Zucker Date Published:2011 Why Relevant and Summary: great blog regarding attachment and how it can effect mental health throughout the lifespan How This Influenced My Thinking: Gave me some great information about attachment and how it effects people throughout adulthood as well as how to mend insecure attachment. Credibility of Source: high. PBS found a licensed psychologist to post this blog

Title- Mary Ainsworth Author- Saul Mcleod Date published-2008 Why relevant and summary- This site goes into depth about who Mary Ainsworth is, what she did for psychology, and how she came to develop her theory of secure attachment. The site gives a lot of information on the different attachment styles and what they mean, as well as providing a video that illustrates the different types of attachment. How this influenced my thinking- This influenced my thinking by allowing me to see how crucial of a role attachment plays in the development of children. Credibility of source- very credible and offers many citations

Title: Social, Emotional and Physical Development of Children Author: Pam Murphy Date Published: June 29, 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it offers brief tips on how to promote children social, emotional, and physical development. It explains why it is important to promote development for the toddler during early development. How This Influenced my Thinking: This influenced my thinking be giving me some helpful tips on to promote development in my own child. Credibility of Source: Found on LiveStrong.com

Title- Piaget's theory of cognitive development author- Many published- 2012 why relevant- This webpage talks about Piaget's theory, assimilation and accommodation, and breaks down all the motor stages. how influenced-Although i did view other websites to learn more about Piaget's theory of development. I felt that wiki broke it down in a way that not many other sites did. I was able to see what was going on in each stage of development, and it even went further into explaining the substages and what they encompass. credibility of source- I checked what wiki was telling me against other, more credible websites so i feel that the info i got was credible, even if the site itself has a bad rep for being credible :)

"Even before we were born, we knew our mother's voice and could distinguish it from other voices." Title: Babies Recognize Mom's voice from the Womb Author: Lee Dye Published: May 22 2013 Why relevant and Summary: Great informative ABC article about research being done in China and Canada which show similar results on babies recognizing mothers's voice. How this influenced my thinking: I am very interested in brain development and learning. I am excited about researching learning and brain development in the womb. Credibility of source: very credible news station and research is cited.

Title: Parenting your toddler's personality type Author:Diane Lore Date Published:n.d. Why relevant/Summary: This article explains the type of children's personality and how you should deal with them, as well as how to parent them without being rude. How this influenced my thinking: It made me realze that three are more ways to parent a child than the wasy that I was parented. Credibility: WebMD

Title:Outdoor Play Author: Johnson, Christie & Wardle Date Published: 2005 Why relevant/summary: This article is relevant because it throughly discusses the importance of physical activity to a growing toddler, specifically how outdoor play can aide in not only their physical development but how it can also be used as a tool for cognitive learning opportunities. How this influenced my thinking: This article opened my eyes to how outdoor play is not only providing play and physical activity for a young child but also many different learning opportunities that they may not experience otherwise. Credibility of Source: Very credible, the authors provided many examples as well as citations and references.