Title: What Science Says Parents Should Do to Set Their Kids up for Success
Headings: Science says parents of successful kids have these 24 things in common
Science says parents of successful kids have these 24 things in common
Research suggests that parents who manage stress well and maintain a positive mood impact their child's mood in a positive way.
They tend to make their kids do chores.
They tend to teach their kids social skills.
They tend to have high expectations.
They tend to have healthy relationships with each other.
They've usually attained higher educational levels.
They tend to teach their kids math early on.
They tend to develop a relationship with their kids.
They're often less stressed.
They tend to value effort over avoiding failure.
The moms tend to work.
They tend to have a higher socioeconomic status.
They are more often "authoritative" than "authoritarian" or "permissive."
They tend to teach "grit."
They tend to apply behavioral control, not psychological control.
They tend to understand the importance of good nutrition and eating habits.
They tend to give their kids bias-proof names.
When they do face conflict, they tend to fight fair in front of their kids.
They tend to let their children fail.
They usually don't let their kids watch too much TV.
They tend to let their kids make decisions.
They tend to teach their kids self-control.
They tend to pay attention to their children.
The parents tend to take parental leave.
They tend to read to their children.

Content: "This study shows that helping children develop social and emotional skills is one of the most important things we can do to prepare them for a healthy future," said Kristin Schubert, program director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which funded the research, in a release. They tend to have high expectations. Using data from a national survey of 6,600 children born in 2001, University of California at Los Angeles professor Neal Halfon and his colleagues discovered that the expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment . "Parents who saw college in their child's future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets," he said in a statement. The finding came out in standardized tests: 57% of the kids who did the worst were expected to attend college by their parents, while 96% of the kids who did the best were expected to go to college. This falls in line with another psych finding: The Pygmalion effect, which states "that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy." In the case of kids, they live up to their parents' expectations. They tend to have healthy relationships with each other.