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I was that guy in high school that always had an opinion, wasn't afraid to make it heard, and usually ended up being told by teachers that if I didn't be quiet, they'd have a nice little yellow slip to hand me on my way out of class that day inviting me to a thirty-minute face-to-face meeting after school the next day.
Sometimes I listened, sometimes I didn't, but it helped me figure out what I was supposed to do with life. I started my career in radio between my Junior and Senior years of high school as an intern for another Springfield radio station, eventually making it onto the payroll and doing weekend shows. I've seen a few spots in the U.S., thanks to radio, that I probably wouldn't have gotten to see otherwise (hello, Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dothan, Alabama!).
Now, as a little bit older person, I've come home to the Springfield area again and am the person that says occasionally witty things between songs every Monday through Friday afternoon. I live in Jacksonville with my wife, my stepson, our infant son, our three dogs, and two cats.
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These were awesome squares!!! Ive made them several times already , They are very easy to make and taste soooo good...only change I made was to add a half C. extra dates ...Many Thanks for a Great recipe...PCrocker
Gotta love these date squares! I doubled the filling because we like a lot of dates. You have to use real butter in these....they just wouldn't taste the same with margarine.
Absolutely 5 stars, no question about it. I got this recipe from a co-worker about 10 years ago and it is a favourite in our house. Highly recommended!
Really delicious recipe... will make again and again :)
Finally I found a recipe that tated just like my mom's, but will cut down on the brown s ugar a bit. Mary from Toronto
This is my FAVORITE bar, it is SO good. I reduced the brown sugar, used no salt, and added 1/4 c. bran to the flour, and 3/4 c. walnuts, coarse chopped. Also used 1/4 c. smart balance for part of the butter. Will definitely make this one again!
Very delicious squares, it seems that 1 cup of dates is not enough to fill an 8'' square pan? I doubled the dates and it was perfect. But apart from that the recipe is great.
I made these for an office potluck today and got rave reviews. One girl didn't know what she was eating, took a bite thought that it was a chocolate fudge filling, promptly decided that it would be too sweet. When I told her it was a Date Square she decided that it was 'healthy', devoured three and asked for the recipe.. Love this recipe!! I used Quaker Old Fashioned Oatmeal rather than instant which I think made it crunchier (according to hubby) This will be my new Date Square recipe. Thanks
I packed these along to take on a train trip with my grandmother. She absolutely loved them and said it was going to replace her old recipe. You taste the dates in every bite. Thank you PCrocker!
These are easy and fantastic, made just as described. I did it with fresh dates and got great results. Delicious!

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Opera claims the latest version of its browser will do what no other browser has managed: a perfect score in the Acid3 test
Opera has taken the fight to its rivals with the alpha of Opera 10, the first browser to fully comply with the Acid3 test, according to the Norweigan company.
In comparison Chrome 0.4 manages 79 out of 100, trailed by Firefox 3.0.4 with 71 and Internet Explorer 7, which hits a meagre 14, though IE8 is expected to improve things significantly when it launches.
Ultimately, the test hopes to encourage the creation of websites that don't need to be rejigged to accomodate an individual browser's foibles.
The other big announcement for Opera 10 is the introduction of the Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which will be the heart of all future Opera products, from desktop to mobile.
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Kelsey Creek Critters and Rainier Rabbits are going to team up to co-host the King County Spring Rabbit Show in April 9, 2016 at Enumclaw Expo in the rabbit barn. After the 2015 King County Fair, the clubs agreed that the coop tables that have been in use for decades and are plagued by dry rot, broken wire and stripped screw housings had reached the end of their useful lives and we'd need to work on a new coop table system before the 2016 fair. This show will be the main fundraiser by the project to underwrite the cost of the new tables. In addition to fit and show and type judging, we will also have educational display and judging/breed i.d. contests. This is an excellent opportunity to see how your educational display that you may enter in King County Fair may be improved before the fair entry deadline and to practice judging and breed identification. Show flyer will be published later this week. This is one of two King County Fair qualifying shows offered in 2016!
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Real Salt Lake notebook: Paulo Jr. taking advantage of playing time
SANDY — Real Salt Lake fans have no doubt noticed a changing of the guard up top the last few weeks, with Paulo Jr. getting the starting nod over Fabian Espindola in each of the past three games.
When asked about it, RSL coach Jason Kreis said that's just the nature of the beast.
The RSL coaching staff could sense fatigue starting to set in on Espindola a few weeks ago, so it decided to keep the striker out of the starting lineup against both FC Dallas and Tauro FC a couple weeks ago.
"I thought he was fatiguing a little bit. When he fatigues, he makes mental errors, he makes technical errors, he makes tactical errors, he gets himself in trouble with referees," said Kreis.
Paulo Jr. stepped in during those games and, according to Kreis, played very well. Kreis wanted to reward Paulo Jr. for that quality play with another start last weekend, and the Brazilian striker accounted for himself very well as his deflected cross led to the only goal in the 1-0 win over D.C. United.
"He's been involved in several successful results for our team and several very successful performances by himself to make assists and make important plays for our team," said Kreis.
As well as Paulo Jr. has played, it's much too early to be called a striker controversy. Paulo Jr. has scored one goal this year and that was on a penalty kick back in April. Espindola has scored six goals this season, and even though it's been 10 games since his last goal, when he's on his game he and Alvaro Saborio form one of the best 1-2 punches in MLS.
With Saborio away with the Costa Rican National Team the next week, Paulo Jr. and Espindola might both be in the starting lineup for Thursday's game at Houston.
Only time will tell if a rested Espindola can rediscover his early-season form, but time is running out with only six regular season games remaining.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH: When Real Salt Lake learned that Nick Rimando would be called in to camp by U.S. National Team coach Jurgen Klinsmann for a pair of World Cup-qualifying matches over the next week, Kreis couldn't help but think, uh-oh.
RSL backup keeper Kyle Reynish had just picked up an injury and wasn't training, and third-string keeper Lalo Fernandez has been out for over a month with a broken wrist.
Sensing Rimando would be the third U.S. keeper on the depth chart and wouldn't even dress for this Friday's game in Jamaica, Kreis asked Klinsmann if Rimando could join the U.S. team after Real Salt Lake's game in Houston this Thursday. He obliged.
"We would never ask that favor if we thought Nick was going to be first or second, but from the look of it it looked like he'd be third," said Kreis.
RSL will still be missing Saborio (Costa Rica), Will Johnson (Canada), Kyle Beckerman (USA) and Chris Wingert (suspended), but at least there's continuity at the back.
ALSO SHORTHANDED: Just like RSL, the Houston Dynamo will also be missing players because of World Cup qualifying this Thursday.
Defenders Andrew Hainualt (Canada) and Jermaine Taylor (Jamaica) are unavailable, as are midfielders Boniek Garcia (Honduras) and Je-Vaughn Watson (Jamaica).
All four have been significant contributors for Houston this year. Hainault and Taylor have appeared in 22 games, with Watson playing in 18 and Garcia 12.
"It does leave some question marks for us about how to prepare for them, but … whenever we have that issue, we tend to become a little bit more focused on ourselves, and that usually ends up doing good things for us," said Kreis.
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The annual report released Thursday revealed that for every 1,000 children in Jefferson County, 36.5 of them are abused or neglected. That amounts to 363 actual cases last year, a jump from 257 the year before. For comparison's sake, nearby Clinton County has a rate of 4.7 per every 1,000 children, the lowest rate in the 51 most populated counties in the state. Clinton County had only 43 substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect, down from 66 the year before.
Marion County had the fifth-highest rate in the state, with a rate of 20.5 per 1,000. That number reflects 227 cases last year, up from 210 the year before. However, the rate has been much higher, peaking at 318 cases reported in 2000.
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Apple distributor expands into Ghana
GHANA| Aug. 4, 2012, 3:39 p.m.
Apple distributor Core Group is launching operations in Ghana.
The company, which launched its local presence in Accra this weekend, will bring to market genuine iPads with a two-year warranty.
Core Group communications manager Taryn Hyam said the company believed that enabling customers buy genuine iPads from authorised distributors would eliminate the problems customers face when they buy the products from third parties.
Core Group Africa is responsible for the distribution of Apple ipads in Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Africa and Angola.
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"Thank you. I will see you all tomorrow after school, if you are here." Dr. Martin said to everyone, but looked mostly at Alex, "Don't worry too much about Torie's actions. Just hope and pray that, come Sunday afternoon when I tell her the truth, that she believes me and makes the right decision."
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His condo had a real "wow" factor. The ceilings were high with exposed ducts and pipes, the walls stark white and the floors a black marble. The wall along the left side was a red brick feature wall. The small entry way had a small den to the left, and the first of the loft's 3 bathrooms to the right. The main room was one MASSIVE open space - the dining room and living room somewhat separated by a floor-to-ceiling modern, two-way fireplace. The windows were black trimmed and also floor-to-ceiling, covering the entire front wall of the space.
The living area was furnished with a large red, modern red sectional sofa and a couple black leather, certainly not your average, beanbag chairs. The area was 'softened' by a cream colour shag rug that looked incredibly plush and had to be at least 20x30ft big. Above the fireplace was an 80inch, top of the line, television and underneath that was a shelf with a newly released PS4 and Xbox One.
His dining room was minimal, with a long, rectangular glass table with 8 high-back black upholstered seats around it (3 at each side, and 1 at each end). His custom kitchen cabinets were red, and the counter tops were white marble. The appliances looked brand new, and were in stainless steel, as was the built in, apron sink. There was also a large square island with four leather stools around it, for informal eating.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The Gamecocks might be ready to compete with defending national champion Florida, Georgia and Tennessee in the SEC East, just like South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said they'd do during the preseason.
Kentucky isn't so ready.
The No. 11-ranked Gamecocks routed the No. 8 Wildcats 38-23 in a matchup of SEC surprises at Williams-Brice Stadium on Thursday night. The mistake-prone Wildcats, who came into the game as one of only 14 unbeaten teams left in major college football, were undone by a comedy of errors, which led to two South Carolina touchdowns and thwarted two scoring drives of their own.
By the end of the rain-soaked night, a crowd of 76,220 had watched South Carolina beat a highly ranked opponent for the second time in six weeks and keep alive its hopes of winning an SEC championship, which it has never done before.
Even though Kentucky was ranked higher than South Carolina, Spurrier said he felt his team was better. The Gamecocks (5-1, 3-1 SEC) should be ranked in the top 10 next week for the first time since 2001.
"We're just still in it," said Spurrier, who led Florida to six outright SEC titles and the 1996 national championship. "If we'd lost, we wouldn't have been in it very well. I think you can still win it with two losses, but not if it's two losses [against teams in your own division]. The rankings can sometimes be deceiving. Those guys who set the point spreads, they're a little bit more accurate. I felt we were a better team than Kentucky. I really did."
The Gamecocks showed they're much, much better than the Wildcats, who were looking to improve to 6-0 for the first time since finishing 10-0 when Paul "Bear" Bryant was their coach in 1950. Instead, Spurrier improved to 15-0 against Kentucky, which has lost to South Carolina eight consecutive times.
"Whether it was crowd noise or whether it was just nerves, I'm not sure," Wildcats coach Rich Brooks said. "We were not a well-oiled machine tonight."
Neither were the Gamecocks. After taking the game's opening kickoff, South Carolina had to use a timeout before its first offensive play. Spurrier said freshman quarterback Chris Smelley, who was making his second start in place of benched senior Blake Mitchell, didn't realize the 25-second play clock ran at the start of the game.
"He said he didn't know it was running," Spurrier said. "I said, 'Geez.'"
Still, Smelley outplayed Kentucky quarterback Andre' Woodson, who came into the game among the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy. Before playing South Carolina, Woodson had thrown 16 touchdowns and only one interception in 167 pass attempts. Earlier this season, the senior set an NCAA record by throwing 325 consecutive passes without an interception, dating back to 2006.
Woodson was far from perfect against South Carolina. He completed 23 of 40 passes for 227 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. South Carolina sacked Woodson three times and forced him to lose two fumbles that changed the game.
"We definitely made a lot of mistakes, especially me personally," Woodson said. "It's something we haven't been doing all year. I was pretty disappointed because we definitely thought we could compete in this game."
Woodson had more luck helping the Gamecocks score. In the first half, he lost a fumble inside the Kentucky 10, which defensive end Eric Norwood scooped up and returned two yards for a touchdown and 7-0 lead. The Gamecocks took a 10-3 lead after the teams traded field goals, then Kentucky tied the score at 10 on Woodson's 18-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jacob Tamme with 12:13 to go in the first half.
After the Gamecocks went ahead 17-10 at the half, Woodson opened the second half with another back-breaking turnover. On second-and-7 at the Carolina 36, Woodson was being rushed and tried to throw a lateral. But his backward pass was low and fullback John Conner couldn't handle it. Norwood picked up the football at the Gamecocks 47 and returned it 53 yards for a touchdown and a 24-10 lead.
"This game was decided on our mistakes and South Carolina's alertness," Brooks said. "One turnover in the end zone. We fumbled a punt. Then the lateral, when [Woodson] was getting sacked and he threw it backwards. South Carolina scooped and scored. Then they scoop and scored on the other fumble. The differences in the game are turnovers and penalties."
Woodson wasn't the only Wildcat playing with too many thumbs. Tailback Rafael Little, who ran for 135 yards on 25 carries, muffed a punt return and the Gamecocks recovered his fumble. When Kentucky trailed 24-13, Little dropped Woodson's handoff and had to fall on the football at the Carolina 4 on the last play of the third quarter. If Little had handled it cleanly, he might have walked into the end zone. Instead, the Wildcats settled for a 23-yard field goal.
Before losing to South Carolina, Kentucky had won 10 of 11 games. The Wildcats were plus-18 in turnovers in those games and hadn't lost the turnover battle in any of its previous 11 contests. Kentucky was minus-three in turnovers against the Gamecocks.
"We gave the ball away a few times," Wildcats defensive end Jeremy Jarmon said. "It's frustrating, but things like that happen. When you're on the road, hostile environment, things happen."
The game began strangely for both teams. South Carolina drove to midfield on its first possession. On second-and-10, Smelly threw across the middle for freshman tight end Weslye Saunders, who caught the pass near Kentucky's 45. Saunders broke free and ran for the end zone for the game's first touchdown. But cornerback Trevard Lindley caught Saunders from behind near the 2 and jarred the football loose. The football rolled out of the back of the end zone for a touchback, giving Kentucky possession at its 20.
But two plays later, tackle Jonathan Williams and linebacker Cliff Matthews rushed Woodson as he dropped back to pass. Williams knocked the football out of Woodson's hand, and Norwood scooped up the fumble at the 2 and scored. "It was about being in the right place at the right time," Norwood said. "It was about covering the right guy. I came out and made the play."
Norwood became only the fourth player in NCAA history to score twice on fumble recoveries in the same game. SMU's Alvin Nnabuife last accomplished the feat against Nevada in 2004.
"I think it's the first time I've ever had a defensive player score two touchdowns," Spurrier said. "Obviously, he had an All-America-type game. He is an active player that makes things happen."
Spurrier might have found a quarterback that can make things happen, too. Against a Kentucky defense that came into the game ranked 103rd in the country in stopping the run, the Gamecocks couldn't run. They ran 23 times for 40 yards in the first three quarters.
So Spurrier decided to throw.
"We were just searching around for some ball plays," Spurrier said.
Smelley wasn't spectacular, but made plays when South Carolina needed them. He completed 17 of 30 passes for 256 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. He was sacked five times.
"I know I still made a lot of mistakes out there and I've still got a lot to improve on, but I did some good things and it's definitely something to build on," Smelley said.
And the Gamecocks' fifth victory of the season is something else for Spurrier to build on. Now, he is halfway toward getting South Carolina to its first SEC championship game in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.
In Spurrier's third season, the Gamecocks have already upset then-No. 11 Georgia on the road, lost at then-No. 2 LSU 28-16 and beat Mississippi State 38-21 in Week 5. After playing at North Carolina next week, South Carolina plays four straight SEC games. The Gamecocks get Vanderbilt at home, then play consecutive road games at Tennessee and Arkansas, before finishing conference play at home against Florida, Spurrier's alma mater.
"It's way too early," Spurrier said. "The only reason I set that goal of winning the SEC was in case we got ourselves in position to do it. Our guys are starting to believe things are going our way. We've got to play them one at a time and see what happens."
At least the Gamecocks are still in the race.
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Slippery swine timeNew to the Dawson County Fair this year was pig wrestling, an event which attracted many onlookers last Thursday night to an outdoor arena at the Lexington fairgrounds.
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While living in Colorado Pastor Jerry and Sue felt God's call to establish CrossPoint Church in the fall of 2006. It came after a challenging period of a home not selling at the beginning of the housing crisis in the U.S. Pastor Jerry says, "We all have cross point's' in our lives and at these points God draws us to fresh appreciation of what Christ accomplished for us on the cross and new beginnings." Prior to this they served on the pastoral staff of Resurrection Fellowship in Loveland, Colorado. Jerry served as the Dean of Beacon University and Beacon Institute of Ministry at the church. He is a graduate of North Central University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sue is a graduate of Bethel University in St. Paul Minnesota. She holds a Masters Degree in Elementary education and has been an elementary school teacher for many years. They have served in various Pastoral capacities since 1985. They have served as Senior Pastors in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Jerry and Sue have been married for 30 years and have four children; Brittany, Taylor, Wesley and Lindsey.
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Brent and Bobbie have a huge heart for ministering to children. Their hope is that the children will strive and live for God for the rest of their lives while having fun learning. Brent is from Hawaii and has been in Sunday kid's ministry for over 20 years. Bobbie grew up in the Upper Peninsula and has been in child care for more than 20 years. They have three children of their own, and love inspiring the children here at CrossPoint church.
Wesley & Christa Lewin, Worship Leaders
Wesley and Christa have both felt God's call on their lives from a young age. Wesley has been leading worship and involved in music ministry since 2008. He writes and records original music that has been featured on radio and a movie. His music website is wesleylewin.com. He has an Associates degree in Manufacturing Engineering and is currently employed in the industry. Christa has been in music ministry since 2008 as well and is classically trained in instrumental music and singing. She is currently working on her bachelors degree in Design Art at UWGB and manages Crosspoint's graphic design and website. Their desire is to usher God's people into His presence where He can change lives and be glorified.
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Katy moved to Green Bay with her husband in 2011 after they married and settled into CrossPoint church. She graduated from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a degree in Human Development and Spanish in 2014. Katy and Sam were blessed by the birth of their first child Elsa in August of 2014. They are expecting their second child in June of 2016. She has had the privilege to work for CrossPoint Church since November 2015 as the Administrative Assistant, assisting with various tasks that help Sunday Service run smoothly.


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Plastic Bag Ban A Pain. No, Really.
Down in Australia, the shop assistants' union wants laws to protect checkout operators from injury when they are forced to lift environmentally-friendly, reusable bags, which can carry up to 40 percent more than plastic bags, Australia's ABC News reports. The union claims that 11.3 percent of all checkout operators have been injured lifting the green bags.
Australia is expected to ban plastic bags next year.
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When I do have my own bags, it seems like a real incovenience to the "baggers" who are packing my groceries. I'm glad that more stores are offering green alternatives, but most bags don't seem very durable.
A silly problem, really. Why not fill the bags less full and use the grocery cart to carry them to the vehicle? This naysay issue is a non-starter unless one is teeing up a personal injury suit for this scenario. This problem is so simple to solve (as above) how could anyone NOT think of it? Ridiculous.
I agree with Peter. It's so obvious it's stupid. If grocery bags are too heavy, put a little less in them. Why is it that some people find the smallest inconvenience intolerable? It's ironic, that the trade-off is the ubiquitous contamination of groundwater and air, three legged frogs, autism, cancer (you name-it) that comes from the thousands of unregulated synthetic chemicals found in things like plastic bags. Evidently, those things are not at all inconvenient to people who can't figure out they should load their grocery bags with less items…
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This study examined the associations between maternal anxiety, behaviors, and expectations and children's self-evaluations of distress, coping, and performance during a stressful performance evaluation task. Seventy-five mothers (38 clinically anxious and 37 nonanxious) along with one of their children aged 6–14 (52.0% female; 78.7% Caucasian) were videotaped while preparing the child to deliver a speech about themselves. Child and parent assessments were obtained before and after the speech, and independent coders rated maternal behavior during the speech preparation. Maternal anxiety and behaviors accounted for a greater proportion of variance in children's self-evaluations than did maternal expectations, such that children of mothers who reported higher task anxiety and demonstrated more overcontrol and anxious behavior during the task evaluated themselves more negatively. These findings extend the literature by providing information about the relative associations between maternal factors and children's self-evaluations within the context of an in vivo stressful situation.
Maladaptive cognitions, particularly negative self-evaluations, are a hallmark feature of excessive anxiety in youth. For decades, researchers have sought to understand which and how parental factors influence the development of children's maladaptive thoughts. Parental anxiety has been found to play a role in the development of children's anxious cognitions, yet the mechanisms of transmission are unclear. Offspring of anxious parents may be biologically predisposed towards negative self-cognitions [1, 2] and more likely to exhibit cognitive biases than are children of nonanxious parents [3]. Although biological and genetic factors may play a role, it is likely that there are multiple mechanisms by which parents may influence children's cognitive biases.
Children's maladaptive cognitions may be shaped by parenting behaviors such as anxious behavior and overcontrol. Anxious behavior such as verbal threat transmission (i.e., expression of threat, uncertainty about ability to cope or likelihood of successful outcome; [4]) and parental modeling (i.e., demonstration of anxiety or avoidance in response to anxiety-provoking situations; [5, 6]) may shape children's perceptions that benign or ambiguous situations are threatening and that successful outcomes are unlikely, thereby reducing self-efficacy beliefs [7–11]. Parents may also engage in overcontrolling parenting behaviors that are intended to protect their children from anxiety-provoking situations and distress. However, rather than decreasing distress, overcontrol may increase children's perceptions of external locus of control [12–15]. Children's negative self-evaluations may develop as a result of restriction of opportunities for mastery and control over their own environment.
Theory suggests that children's self-evaluations are shaped also by the perceptions others hold of them [16, 17] and research supports the hypothesis that the expectations of significant others influence children's self-cognitions [e.g., 18, 19]. Specifically, negative parental cognitions about their children (e.g., lower expectations for success) are associated with higher levels of child negative self-cognitions and poorer expectations for coping [e.g., 8, 20–23]. Several studies have demonstrated that parents may convey their own negative cognitions to their children through family discussions, thereby potentially enhancing children's threat biases and negative perceptions of their ability to cope with anxiety-provoking situations [e.g., 24, 25], although other studies have not demonstrated this effect [e.g., 26].
Although our understanding of the association between parental factors and child cognitions is growing, there exist certain limitations in the literature. First, the majority of samples were selected either on parental or child anxiety but most researchers have not controlled for anxiety in the other person, thereby introducing a potential confound into the association between parenting factors and children's cognitive biases. Second, few studies have examined the association between specific parental behaviors in relation to child self-evaluations or cognitions. Third, much of the research regarding the association between maternal factors and children's cognitions involves ambiguous situation paradigms. These studies examine cognitive biases regarding the interpretation of ambiguous stimuli but provide no information regarding how mothers respond in vivo to stressful situations and how their responses shape their children's self-evaluations.
Finally, with few exceptions [e.g., 13], the relative influence of parental anxiety, cognitions, and behaviors on children's cognitions, particularly self-evaluations, has not been examined. A previous study with the current sample examined mechanisms of transmission between parental and child anxiety (not specifically self-evaluations) [13]. Results using questionnaire data indicated that the influence of maternal behavior was independent of the influence of maternal anxiety and may be stronger than the influence of certain maternal cognitions (i.e., external locus of control), suggesting that examining the relative importance of parental factors is worthwhile as it may identify the most robust parental risk factor [13].
The present study addressed these limitations and included two aims. The primary aim was to examine the associations between maternal factors (i.e., task anxiety, behaviors, and expectations for children's outcomes) and children's self-evaluations of distress, coping, and performance within the context of an anxiety-provoking performance evaluation task (i.e., child preparing and delivering a speech). The secondary aim was to examine the relative influence of each maternal factor on children's self-evaluations.
We selected a speech paradigm similar to that used in two previous studies [i.e., 22, 26] that was expected to elicit sufficient levels of anxiety. Use of a stressful performance evaluation task was unique and necessary to examine the overarching questions of how do anxious mothers respond in actual stressful situations and how do their responses in these situations relate to children's perceptions of their own distress, coping, and performance?
We assessed maternal and child variables using multiple informants that included self-report and behaviors coded by an independent evaluator. Because child anxiety is believed to affect children's cognitions as well as parental variables [e.g., 27, 28] and has not been accounted for in previous studies, levels of child anxiety were controlled. We measured maternal and child task anxiety rather than global anxiety symptoms so that we could better understand the real-time associations among maternal factors and child self-evaluations related to a stressful situation. Based on the extant literature, we hypothesized that maternal task anxiety, behaviors (i.e., overcontrol and anxious behavior), and negative expectations (i.e., low expectations for child success) would each be related to children's negative self-evaluations following the speech. Based on our previous study [i.e., 13] we also predicted that, of the maternal factors, parental behaviors would have the strongest relation with child self-evaluations following the speech.
The sample comprised 38 mothers who met criteria for a DSM-IV anxiety disorder and 37 ("healthy") mothers who did not meet criteria for any psychiatric disorder, along with one of their children. Mothers ranged in age from 26 to 54 years (M = 39.91, SD = 5.80) and most were currently married (81.3%). Children were between the ages of 6 and 14 years (M = 9.03, SD = 1.68). This age range was selected because it is a high-risk period for the development of anxiety disorders [29]. Approximately half the children were female (52.0%) and the majority of children were Caucasian (78.7%; 15% were African American) and from families from upper socioeconomic backgrounds (58.7% annual income $80,000 or higher). There were no group differences in terms of parent income, parent age, child age, or child gender, although significantly more children in the healthy mothers group were African American (χ2 = 9.40, p < .05).
Anxious mothers were recruited through a variety of methods, including advertisements in local papers, mailings to local doctors and psychiatrists, and community flyers to participate in a study examining the impact of an anxiety prevention program [30] on their nonanxious offspring. Families who contacted the project responded to screening questions designed to identify ineligible families according to the exclusion criteria prior to the full assessment. Eligible families were scheduled for in-person evaluations that included semi-structured diagnostic interviews, questionnaires, and a behavioral observation task that was the focus of the present study.
Trained Ph.D. or MA level evaluators conducted semi-structured interviews to determine participant diagnoses. Maternal diagnoses were determined using the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule: Lifetime Version (ADIS) [31]. Child diagnoses were assessed using the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule: Child Version (ADIS-C) [32]. Each mother in the anxious sample received a current anxiety disorder diagnosis. Primary diagnoses for the anxious mothers included generalized anxiety disorder (n = 21), social phobia (n = 6), panic disorder with agoraphobia (n = 5), panic disorder without agoraphobia (n = 3), specific phobia (n = 2), and obsessive–compulsive disorder (n = 1). The majority of mothers (74.0%) met criteria for a current comorbid disorder, most commonly anxiety (n = 22) and mood (n = 5) disorders. Over half the mothers (55.3%) were currently in psychiatric treatment for their anxiety disorder.
Nonanxious mothers were recruited with flyers describing a study of stress and coping in families. These mothers were eligible to participate as healthy controls only if there was no current or lifetime diagnosis of an anxiety or mood disorder as indicated through the ADIS interview.
Children were eligible if they were between the ages of 7 and 12 and without an anxiety disorder. (Two children who were 6 and two children who were 13–14 years old were also included). Children currently receiving psychological or pharmacological treatment for anxiety reduction were excluded from the study. Mothers and children with a medical or psychiatric condition contraindicating study intervention (e.g., suicidality) were also excluded from participation.
Fifty-one families completed the assessment battery and were considered for enrollment in the anxious group. Eleven families were ineligible on the basis of their child's anxiety disorder (n = 9), the parent's major depression (n = 1), and the absence of a parental anxiety disorder (n = 1). We excluded from the present analyses two families in which the father presented as the anxious parent; thus, our anxious sample comprised 38 mothers. Fifty families with nonanxious parents completed the assessment battery. Nine families were excluded on the basis of lifetime diagnosis of major depressive disorder or current pharmacological treatment of a mood disorder, as was an additional family who was unable to complete the full assessment. We excluded from the present analyses three families in which the father presented as the anxious parent. The final sample included 38 families with anxious mothers and 37 families with healthy mothers.
Following completion of the semi-structured diagnostic interviews and questionnaires, mother–child dyads participated in a behavioral task designed to assess mother–child interactions in a social performance situation. Mother–child pairs were given the following instructions by the interviewer: "Now we are going to do something a little different. I want you to prepare a speech about yourself. For the next 5 min, try to plan what you want to say about yourself. When I come back, we will film you as you deliver your speech into the camera. It's okay for your mom to help." After these instructions were given, each child and mother completed several brief questionnaires (described below). Five minutes were allotted for the preparation time, during which time the mother and child were videotaped in a room alone. After the 5 min, the interviewer returned and the child was asked to deliver a speech into the camera. Parents remained in the room during the speech delivery. Immediately after the speech was delivered, parent and child again completed several brief questionnaires.
Maternal task anxiety was indicated by mothers' ratings of their own anxiety on a 9-point scale (0 = not at all anxious to 8 = extremely anxious) immediately following the interviewer's instructions and just before the 5-min speech planning session.
Immediately following the interviewer's instructions, mothers also rated their expectations by completing the following three questions: (1) "To what degree do you expect your child to become upset about giving the speech?" (2) "To what degree do you feel that your child will be able to cope or stay calm during the speech?" and (3) "How well do you feel your child will perform while giving the speech?" Mothers responded to each of these items on a 5-point scale (1 = not at all to 5 = very). These items corresponded to each of the outcomes on which children rated themselves (i.e., distress, coping, performance).
The overall frequency of two maternal behaviors during the speech planning phase of the task was coded by independent raters: overcontrol and anxious behavior. Overcontrol involved intrusive unsolicited help or commands delivered by the parent to direct the child's behavior. Examples include pressuring the child to talk about specific topics, rapidly listing a set of topics for the child to talk about, and directing the organization of the speech. The delivery of helpful instructions or redirection to an off-task child was not coded as overcontrol. Anxious behavior involved anxious or worried statements about the speech topics (e.g., "I don't know if that is a good topic to talk about."), the child's ability to deliver the speech (e.g., "Do you think you'll be able to do this in front of the camera?"), the length of time for speech planning (e.g., "We only have 5 min to plan your speech. I don't think we have enough time to plan a good speech."), and the length of time for speech delivery (e.g., "Five minutes is a really long time. I don't think you'll have enough to say."). Nonverbal actions such as displaying worried facial expressions, biting the lip, wringing the hands, or rocking in the chair were considered anxious behaviors depending on the context.
Videotapes were coded by undergraduate and graduate level research assistants who were blind to maternal diagnostic status. All coders were required to obtain 80% agreement across five sample tapes of parent–child interaction prior to coding the study tapes. Training of each coder took approximately 15 h. After establishing initial interrater reliability for each coder, reliability checks were performed on a random sample of 44% of the coded research tapes. Inter-rater reliability was assessed using a 2,1 model of intraclass correlations (ICCs) [33]. ICCs were adequate for the both parenting domains: overcontrol (.85) and anxious behavior (.68).
Using coding procedures created based on those used in other observational studies [e.g., 34–36], coders paused the 5-min speech planning segment after each minute and coded only those interactions observed within that minute. Coders then watched the entire 5 min preparation task and rated the overall frequency of maternal overcontrol and anxious behavior using a 5-point Likert-type scale from 0 (no presence of the behavior within the 5 min task = 0% of the time) to 4 (presence of the behavior for most of the 5 min task = 76–100% of the time).
Immediately following the interviewer's instructions and just before the speech planning phase, children rated their own anxiety (0 = not at all anxious to 8 = extremely anxious).
Children provided self-evaluations after they delivered the speech. Specifically, children responded to three questions that paralleled the maternal expectations items: (1) "How upset did you get about giving the speech?" (2) "To what degree were you able to cope or stay calm during the speech?" and (3) "How well do you feel you performed while giving the speech?" Children responded to each of these items on a 5-point scale (1 = not at all to 5 = very).
Means and standard deviations for each measure are presented for each parent diagnostic group and for the total sample in Table 1. We compared anxious and healthy mothers on maternal task anxiety and, as expected, anxious mothers reported significantly higher levels of task anxiety (M = 1.97, SD = 1.76) than healthy mothers reported (M = 0.70, SD = 1.05; t(72) = 3.78, p < .01). We examined the skewness and kurtosis statistics for scores on each measure and found them to be within the acceptable range according to published standards in the field (<2 for skewness, <7 for kurtosis) [37], therefore, no transformations were necessary.
Prior to conducting regression analyses related to the study hypotheses, we examined child gender, child age, and parent age as potential covariates with our dependent variables, yet found no significant correlations.
Correlations were conducted among the primary variables (Table 2). Three significant correlations were identified between maternal factors (i.e., predictor variables) and child outcomes. Specifically, higher maternal task anxiety was associated with children's lower ratings of their performance. Higher maternal overcontrol was associated with higher levels of child-reported distress. Higher levels of maternal anxious behavior were associated with poorer child-reported coping. Significant correlations were also apparent among the maternal factors as well as among the child outcome variables (see Table 2). Multicollinearity was not a concern for the regression equations because correlations were low to moderate and appropriate tolerance statistics were in the appropriate range within each regression (>.2) [38].
Three separate hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine the extent to which maternal task anxiety, behavior, and expectations accounted for variance in children's self-evaluations across three domains: distress, coping, and performance. Child task anxiety (i.e., post-instruction) was entered in step one of the regression to control for initial anxiety level. Maternal task anxiety, overcontrol, anxious behavior, and corresponding expectation were entered on step two. One-tailed tests were conducted to examine hypothesized associations.
When the maternal variables were entered into the model, the model accounted for a significantly greater proportion of variance in children's self-evaluations of distress (ΔR2 = 0.16; F(4, 60) = 2.88, p < .05; Table 3) than that accounted for by child task anxiety alone and the entire model was statistically significant (F(5, 60) = 2.34, p < .05). Higher maternal overcontrol was significantly related to higher levels of child-reported distress.
The model for predicting children's self-evaluations of coping that included all maternal variables was statistically significant (F(5, 60) = 2.72, p < .05), although the proportion of variance in children's self-evaluations of coping it accounted for above and beyond that accounted for by child task anxiety demonstrated only a trend towards statistical significance (ΔR2 = 0.13; F(4, 60) = 2.29, p = .07; Table 4). Higher anxious behavior was significantly related to lower self-evaluations of coping.
The model for predicting children's self-assessments of their performance that included all maternal variables was statistically significant (F(5, 59) = 2.09, p < .05), although the proportion of variance in children's self-evaluations of coping it accounted for above and beyond that accounted for by child task anxiety demonstrated only a trend towards statistical significance (ΔR2 = 0.14; F(4, 59) = 2.34, p = .06; Table 5). Maternal anxiety and overcontrol were significantly related to children's lower evaluations of their performance.
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the associations between maternal factors (i.e., task anxiety, behaviors, and expectations for children's outcomes) and children's self-evaluations of distress, coping, and performance within the context of a stress-provoking performance evaluation task. We hypothesized that maternal anxiety, expectations, and behaviors (i.e., overcontrol and anxious behavior) would each be related to children's self-evaluations, even after controlling for child anxiety related to the task. The secondary purpose of the study was to examine the relative influence of each maternal factor on children's self-evaluations and we hypothesized that maternal behaviors would demonstrate the strongest association with children's self-evaluations. Partial support was obtained for each hypothesis.
Consistent with our hypothesis, higher maternal task anxiety was associated with children's lower self-evaluations, but only of performance, a finding that also converges with previous literature on maternal anxiety and children's cognitions [13]. While there are multiple explanations for this finding, mothers who experience an increase in their state anxiety level when presented with a performance evaluation situation may be more likely to verbalize their worry regarding child performance and subtly communicate lower expectations for successful outcomes for their children's performance. Moreover, because they remained in the room during the speech delivery, it is possible that anxious mothers provided verbal or nonverbal feedback to their children regarding their performance that were then reflected in children's reports of their own performance.
However, contrary to our hypothesis, maternal task anxiety was not associated with children's self-evaluations of their distress and coping. It may be the case that maternal anxiety does not play as prominent a role in children's perceptions of their distress and coping relative to other parenting or child factors (e.g., maternal attributions, children's locus of control; [13, 14, 22]).
In line with our hypothesis, and consistent with theory [i.e., 14] and research [12, 13, 15, 34], analyses revealed that higher levels of overcontrolling maternal behaviors were associated with children's poorer self-evaluations of distress and performance. Specifically, children whose mothers told them what to talk about or directed the organization of the speech reported more distress after and poorer delivery of the speech compared to children whose mothers were more supportive of their independence and autonomy in generating the speech. As has been hypothesized by others, parenting behaviors that discourage independence may convey that the child does not have the ability to successfully navigate a challenging situation without significant assistance [14, 39], thereby increasing child distress and views of poor performance in a particular stressful situation (regardless of the child's level of anxiety).
In contrast to our hypothesis, maternal overcontrol was not related to children's self-evaluations of their coping. It may be that despite overcontrolling maternal behaviors that increase their distress, children are able to cope with their upsetting emotions, although they still perceive decrements in performance. Another explanation is that perhaps the speech task, although anxiety-provoking, did not elicit enough anxiety to see a range in coping outcomes. All children were able to complete the speech task and none of them exhibited behavioral signs of significant distress (e.g., crying, attempting to leave the room).
Children whose mothers made anxious verbalizations about speech topics or modeled anxious behaviors (e.g., wringing hands, biting the lip) reported more difficulty coping with the situation compared to children whose mothers did not model as much anxiety. By selectively focusing on negative aspects of the situation (e.g., "Do you think you'll be able to find enough to say for 5 min?") rather than constructive cognitive coping (e.g., "You've never done this before, but I bet we can work together to come up with a good plan."), mothers scoring high on anxious behavior may have shown less effective coping strategies that then shaped the perceived coping abilities of their children following the speech. Additionally, the content of some of the verbalized worries (e.g., "Do you think you'll be able to give the speech without looking nervous?") directly reflected mothers' uncertainty (i.e., expectations) regarding children's ability to manage their anxiety. In any one stressful situation, anxious behavior may result in a child's questioning if and how he or she will cope with anxiety. Repeated exposure to threat transmission and/or anxious modeling by parents may shape children's self-concept regarding how they cope with stressful situations.
Contrary to our hypothesis, anxious behavior was not related to children's evaluations of their distress or performance. This finding is consistent with another study that found no effect of parental anxious behavior on performance, although performance was indicated by actual performance on a spelling test [8]. Parental anxious behavior may share commonalities with child coping, such that observing a parent cope poorly makes their own coping more salient to children than distress or performance when they are prompted to reflect on their coping. A sample of healthy children may be able to rationalize displays of maternal anxiety (e.g., "That's just mom being anxious.") and not let it increase their own distress or interfere with their performance.
We hypothesized that maternal expectations would be associated with children's self-evaluations, but this hypothesis was not supported. The lack of association between maternal expectations and child self-cognitions is consistent with some previous research [e.g., 13, 26] but incongruent with other studies showing that maternal expectations of children's coping overlap with children's reports of their coping [22]. The absence of an association between maternal expectations and children's self-evaluations may reflect the true absence of a relationship, suggesting that maternal behaviors, rather than expectations, play a larger role in shaping children's negative self-evaluations. This may occur because it is not enough for mothers to simply have expectations about their children, but that these expectations need to be conveyed to children in some verbal or behavioral way in order to shape their self-evaluations. In other research, these expectations are made explicit during family discussions [24, 25] or are confirmed by the child's report of how their mothers would react to a given situation [8, 40]. By examining how parents naturally behaved when presented with a stressful performance evaluation situation, our study provides a complementary approach to one study involving experimental manipulation of parental expression of low expectations for the child's success [i.e., 8].
Results of this study indicated that maternal variables accounted for 15–19% of the variance in children's self-evaluations. Of the maternal predictors included in the model, maternal behavior was the most robust predictor of child self-evaluations. Children whose mothers exhibited overcontrolling behaviors reported greater distress and poorer performance and children whose mothers displayed anxious behavior rated their coping as poorer than children whose mothers did not display these behaviors. Even though children's reported anxiety about the speech task was initially associated with lower ratings of coping, when all of the variables were entered into the model, mothers' behavior played a greater role in shaping children's self-perceptions. It was only in the case of children's ratings of their performance that mothers' higher task anxiety also predicted poorer self-evaluations. Although the task in this study serves as just a snapshot of behavior, repeated interactions involving maternal overcontrol and anxious behavior may result in restricted opportunities for the child to practice skills to attain mastery of his or her environment and lower a child's evaluations of themselves as someone with appropriate emotion regulation skills and competence in a particular task.
These results suggest that parenting behaviors such as maternal overcontrol and anxious behavior may be potential targets within family-based treatments for child anxiety. Psychoeducation for parents about how parenting behaviors may exacerbate or maintain children's negative self-perceptions and anxiety would be important to provide as the rationale for changing these behaviors. Parental monitoring could illuminate the frequency and context of parental overcontrol and anxious behavior. Armed with this information, clinicians and parents could collaboratively identify situations in which parents could systematically practice alternative behaviors. For example, a parent who usually expresses anxiety prior to a birthday party her child is about to attend (e.g., "I hope the other kids talk to you.") and exhibits overcontrol while at the party (e.g., talking for the child or telling the child what to say) might instead practice expressing positive statements ("This party is going to be fun!") and demonstrating behaviors that reinforce her child's independence (e.g., praise for social interaction, rehearsing ahead of time what the child might say, allowing for periods of silence while child thinks of something to say). A recent controlled study from our lab of a family-based preventive intervention targeting parenting behaviors in a similar manner yielded promising results for the prevention of child anxiety [30].
It is important to consider the results, particularly the null findings, in light of several methodological limitations. As is true for other published studies of this nature, the measurement of the constructs have several flaws including (1) the reliance on a single indicator which may have been insufficient to fully capture the constructs of interest, (2) the restricted range of some of the variables (e.g., mothers reported generally high expectations for their children's outcomes; thus, a restricted range may have dampened the association with children's self-evaluations), (3) the absence of external validity data on the observational measures, and (4) the low level of anxiety evoked by the speech task. Although there was variability in the anxiety reported by mothers and children regarding the task, in general, the anxiety evoked was relatively mild (see Table 1). Thus, it is unclear whether similar findings would be found in situations that elicit stronger anxiety.
Maternal task anxiety, rather than maternal diagnostic status ("anxious" or "nonanxious") was selected as our independent variable because it reflects the dimensional nature of anxiety and we wanted to examine how maternal anxiety, behaviors, and expectations relate to children's outcomes in vivo. Although some might consider this a limitation, we believe that this approach complements approaches that rely on global constructs by providing the opportunity to generate inductive inferences that can be tested and used to refine theory based on what occurs within the moment.
Sample characteristics reflect another limitation to our study. Reliance on a community sample of families with children with subclinical levels of anxiety may have weakened the associations among these variables. Findings from a recent meta-analysis suggest that effect sizes of parenting behaviors on child anxiety tend to be smaller in nonclinical samples [41], but it is not clear if the same holds true for parental expectations and children's self-evaluations. The null findings for the associations between maternal behaviors and children's evaluations of their performance may reflect the ability of non-anxious youth to manage the effects that maternal behaviors have on their emotions and coping to still deliver a satisfactory performance. Therefore, the generalizability of these findings to youth with anxiety disorders is unknown. Additionally, our small sample size may have limited the statistical power to detect significant associations.
Finally, the study was correlational and therefore could not provide evidence of causal associations. A longitudinal design would permit stronger conclusions regarding the associations between maternal factors and children's self-evaluations.
This study examined the association between maternal factors (i.e., anxiety, behavior, expectations) and children's self-evaluations of distress, coping, and performance in a sample of 75 mothers and one of their children who participated in a speech delivery paradigm. Findings from the present study suggest that maternal factors account for a small (i.e., 15–19%) but significant proportion of variance in children's evaluations of distress, coping, and performance during an in vivo task. Maternal anxiety and behaviors (i.e., overcontrol, anxious behavior) demonstrated stronger associations with children's self-evaluations than did maternal expectations. Although the study is limited by the use of single indicators of constructs, it provides the groundwork for future researchers to use similar methodology to examine how maternal and child factors interact in anxiety-provoking situations. Continued refinement and use of ecologically valid assessments of parent–child interactions is important to identifying the specific situations that activate the influence of maternal factors on children's cognitions about themselves as well as potential mediators (e.g., maternal behaviors and cognitions, children's external locus of control) and moderators (e.g., child and parent gender) of the association between maternal factors and children's self-evaluations.
This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH63427-02) awarded to Golda S. Ginsburg, Ph.D. During manuscript preparation, Kimberly Becker was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH18834).
Kimberly D. Becker, Department of Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 901, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA.
Golda S. Ginsburg, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Vaughn Davis Bornet: Review of Joseph W. Scott and Solomon A. Getahun's "Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest" (Transaction, 2013)
Often a book will be idly described as "timely" on one thin ground or another. This book on Ethiopians who migrated from their home country in Northern Africa (via Sudan?) and settled in Seattle fits the needs of all who are focusing on immigration policy at this moment and wish they knew a whole lot more about those who came here voluntarily and involuntarily.