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Autos / Re: Free Full Autocheck Report For 19 Vehicles by doctimi(m): 1:52pm On Dec 12, 2016
JHMCM56693C072844

Please help check
NYSC / Re: FG To Exhume Late Corper's Body For Autopsy by doctimi(m): 7:06pm On Dec 08, 2016
Bullshit.....Bullshit.... I just fucking hate this government. Smells of shit every other day
Crime / Re: Man Breaks Police Inspector’s Jaw At Station by doctimi(m): 12:11pm On Dec 07, 2016
HungerBad..... Recession-induced UpperCut.

Buhari...Please come and solve your problems o
Politics / Re: Soldiers Carrying Abu Ali On Their Shoulder & Hailing Him (Throwback Photo) by doctimi(m): 10:18pm On Nov 06, 2016
Great Man. Exceptional Leader. Gallant Soldier. Distinguished Officer. Meritorious Gentleman

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Autos / Re: *SOLD * 2007 ACURA CSX Registered In Ibadan!!! 1.550m by doctimi(m): 5:11pm On Oct 18, 2016
same with me. I almost journeyed to Ibadan to close this deal but on checking google, i couldn't find the Model. I became really skeptical as google couldn't assuage my doubts.

Acura GSX..... Only the manufacturers can answer
Autos / Re: Registered Toyota Matrix 2003, Few Months Used, Super Clean For Just 1.240m Rush by doctimi(m): 11:58am On Oct 14, 2016
1m
Autos / Re: Honda CIVIC 2008 Super Clean 1.1m by doctimi(m): 11:52am On Oct 14, 2016
please show engine pix.
Autos / Re: *SOLD * 2007 ACURA CSX Registered In Ibadan!!! 1.550m by doctimi(m): 11:44am On Oct 14, 2016
1.3mil is great deal.
Autos / Re: SOLD! SOLD! Registered 2010 Toyota Camry Le(leather Seats, Reverse Cam) 2.35M by doctimi(m): 1:46pm On Sep 21, 2016
what you say Please take my money...
Autos / Re: 2007 Toyota Camry (4 Months Registered) - SOLD by doctimi(m): 1:18pm On Sep 20, 2016
2.0mil Deal
Autos / Re: SOLD! SOLD! Registered 2010 Toyota Camry Le(leather Seats, Reverse Cam) 2.35M by doctimi(m): 1:09pm On Sep 20, 2016
2mil....
Crime / Re: Four Nigerians Caught With Drugs Worth N21billion In Sydney by doctimi(m): 11:54am On Aug 27, 2016
Roger That.....

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Crime / Re: Nigerian And Romanian Arrested For Drug-trafficking In Cambodia - Khmer Times by doctimi(m): 5:31pm On Aug 18, 2016
321 Infantry Batallion...... Over....Food is Ready..........

India Golf Bravo Oscar.....

Task completed. Status confirmed... NCAN Ladipo Branch. Over....

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Religion / Re: Twitter Reacts To Adeboye's Advice On The Type Of People Not Marry by doctimi(m): 6:45pm On Aug 02, 2016
i no agree.....period
Politics / Re: Where is Former Vp: Namadi Sambo? by doctimi(m): 9:13am On Aug 01, 2016
Retired into private practice.

He's an architect remember.... All the projects he cornered back then....he isn't done with them.

Smart Architect wey sabi

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Education / Re: Past And Serving Governors That Attended UNILAG by doctimi(m): 5:05pm On Jul 28, 2016
No big deal now.
Celebrities / Re: Pearl Cardy Blasted For Showing Undies In Sheer Outfit [PICS] by doctimi(m): 4:22pm On Jul 19, 2016
Agu..... I am not understanding you

Striker...... Please go and meet commander

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Foreign Affairs / Re: David Cameron Resigns As Prime Minister After Britain Votes To Leave EU by doctimi(m): 9:12am On Jun 24, 2016
WOW
Family / Re: Science Says Parents Of Successful Kids Have These 13 Things In Common by doctimi(m): 10:05am On Jun 21, 2016
Yes please. Go ahead.

dfrost:
Nice points but I'll counter a few with examples. Hope you don't mind OP?

Family / Science Says Parents Of Successful Kids Have These 13 Things In Common by doctimi(m): 8:04pm On Jun 20, 2016
Good parents want their kids to stay out of trouble, do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults.

And while there isn't a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.

Unsurprisingly, much of it comes down to the parents.

Here's what parents of successful kids have in common:


1. They make their kids do chores.

"If kids aren't doing the dishes, it means someone else is doing that for them," Julie Lythcott-Haims, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of "How to Raise an Adult" said during a TED Talks Live event.

"And so they're absolved of not only the work, but of learning that work has to be done and that each one of us must contribute for the betterment of the whole," she said.

Lythcott-Haims believes kids raised on chores go on to become employees who collaborate well with their coworkers, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, and are able to take on tasks independently.

She bases this on the Harvard Grant Study, the longest longitudinal study ever conducted.

"By making them do chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life," she tells Tech Insider.

2. They teach their kids social skills.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 and found a significant correlation between their social skills as kindergartners and their success as adults two decades later.

The 20-year study showed that socially competent children who could cooperate with their peers without prompting, be helpful to others, understand their feelings, and resolve problems on their own, were far more likely to earn a college degree and have a full-time job by age 25 than those with limited social skills.

Those with limited social skills also had a higher chance of getting arrested, binge drinking, and applying for public housing.

"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.

"From an early age, these skills can determine whether a child goes to college or prison, and whether they end up employed or addicted."




3. They 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.

4. They have healthy relationships with each other.

Children in high-conflict families, whether intact or divorced, tend to fare worse than children of parents that get along, according to a University of Illinois study review.

Robert Hughes Jr., professor and head of the Department of Human and Community Development in the College of ACES at the University of Illinois and study review author, also notes that some studies have found children in nonconflictual single-parent families fare better than children in conflictual two-parent families.

The conflict between parents prior to divorce also affects children negatively, while post-divorce conflict has a strong influence on children's adjustment, Hughes says.

One study found that, after divorce, when a father without custody has frequent contact with his kids and there is minimal conflict, children fare better. But when there is conflict, frequent visits from the father are related to poorer adjustment of children.

Yet another study found that 20-somethings who experienced divorce of their parents as children still report pain and distress over their parent's divorce 10 years later. Young people who reported high conflict between their parents were far more likely to have feelings of loss and regret.

5. They've attained higher educational levels.

A 2014 study lead by University of Michigan psychologist Sandra Tang found that mothers who finished high school or college were more likely to raise kids that did the same.

Pulling from a group of over 14,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998 to 2007, the study found that children born to teen moms (18 years old or younger) were less likely to finish high school or go to college than their counterparts.

Aspiration is at least partially responsible. In a 2009 longitudinal study of 856 people in semirural New York, Bowling Green State University psychologist Eric Dubow found that "parents' educational level when the child was 8 years old significantly predicted educational and occupational success for the child 40 years later."

6. They teach their kids math early on.

A 2007 meta-analysis of 35,000 preschoolers across the US, Canada, and England found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage.

"The paramount importance of early math skills — of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts — is one of the puzzles coming out of the study," coauthor and Northwestern University researcher Greg Duncan said in a press release. "Mastery of early math skills predicts not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement."

7. They develop a relationship with their kids.

A 2014 study of 243 people born into poverty found that children who received "sensitive caregiving" in their first three years not only did better in academic tests in childhood, but had healthier relationships and greater academic attainment in their 30s.

As reported on PsyBlog, parents who are sensitive caregivers "respond to their child's signals promptly and appropriately" and "provide a secure base" for children to explore the world.

"This suggests that investments in early parent-child relationships may result in long-term returns that accumulate across individuals' lives," coauthor and University of Minnesota psychologist Lee Raby said in an interview.

8. They're less stressed.

According to recent research cited by Brigid Schulte at The Washington Post, the number of hours that moms spend with kids between ages 3 and 11 does little to predict the child's behavior, well-being, or achievement.

What's more, the "intensive mothering" or "helicopter parenting" approach can backfire.

"Mothers' stress, especially when mothers are stressed because of the juggling with work and trying to find time with kids, that may actually be affecting their kids poorly," study coauthor and Bowling Green State University sociologist Kei Nomaguchi told The Post.

Emotional contagion — or the psychological phenomenon where people "catch" feelings from one another like they would a cold — helps explain why. Research shows that if your friend is happy, that brightness will infect you; if she's sad, that gloominess will transfer as well. So if a parent is exhausted or frustrated, that emotional state could transfer to the kids.

9. They value effort over avoiding failure.

Where kids think success comes from also predicts their attainment.

Over decades, Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has discovered that children (and adults) think about success in one of two ways. Over at the always-fantastic Brain Pickings, Maria Popova says they go a little something like this:

A "fixed mindset" assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens that we can't change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.

A "growth mindset," on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of un-intelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities.

At the core is a distinction in the way you assume your will affects your ability, and it has a powerful effect on kids. If kids are told that they aced a test because of their innate intelligence, that creates a "fixed" mindset. If they succeeded because of effort, that teaches a "growth" mindset.

10. The moms work.

According to research out of Harvard Business School, there are significant benefits for children growing up with mothers who work outside the home.

The study found daughters of working mothers went to school longer, were more likely to have a job in a supervisory role, and earned more money — 23% more compared to their peers who were raised by stay-at-home mothers.

The sons of working mothers also tended to pitch in more on household chores and childcare, the study found — they spent seven-and-a-half more hours a week on childcare and 25 more minutes on housework.

"Role modeling is a way of signaling what's appropriate in terms of how you behave, what you do, the activities you engage in, and what you believe," the study's lead author, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, told Business Insider.

"There are very few things, that we know of, that have such a clear effect on gender inequality as being raised by a working mother," she told Working Knowledge.

11. They have a higher socioeconomic status.

Tragically, one-fifth of American children grow up in poverty, a situation that severely limits their potential.

It's getting more extreme. According to Stanford University researcher Sean Reardon, the achievement gap between high- and low-income families "is roughly 30% to 40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years earlier."

As "Drive" author Dan Pink has noted, the higher the income for the parents, the higher the SAT scores for the kids.

"Absent comprehensive and expensive interventions, socioeconomic status is what drives much of educational attainment and performance," he wrote.

12: They are "authoritative" rather than "authoritarian" or "permissive."

First published in the 1960s, research by University of California at Berkeley developmental psychologist Diana Baumride found there are basically three kinds of parenting styles [pdf]:

Permissive: The parent tries to be nonpunitive and accepting of the child
Authoritarian: The parent tries to shape and control the child based on a set standard of conduct
Authoritative: The parent tries to direct the child rationally
The ideal is the authoritative. The kid grows up with a respect for authority, but doesn't feel strangled by it.

13: They teach "grit."

In 2013, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth won a MacArthur "genius" grant for her uncovering of a powerful, success-driving personality trait called grit.

Defined as a "tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals," her research has correlated grit with educational attainment, grade-point average in Ivy League undergrads, retention in West Point cadets, and rank in the US National Spelling Bee.

It's about teaching kids to imagine — and commit — to a future they want to create.


http://www.businessinsider.com/how-parents-set-their-kids-up-for-success-2016-4

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Celebrities / Re: Femi Kuti Celebrates His 54th Birthday Today by doctimi(m): 9:23am On Jun 16, 2016
HBD Mentor
Politics / Re: NAF Deploys Additional Aircrafts To South-South To Help Flush Out Militants(Pics by doctimi(m): 3:26pm On Jun 03, 2016
[size=20pt]To a man who has only hammer in his toolkit, all problems look like nails.
This government is led by a tactless and undiplomatic soldier, hence the only solution he knows is to deploy soldiers, fighterjets, gunboats and all forms of weapon.
i'M GETTING SICK OF THE NDA and their guerilla warfare anyways[/size]

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Crime / Re: Ese Oruru Delivers Baby Girl by doctimi(m): 4:39pm On May 26, 2016
They never told us she was pregnant. I'm maniacally bewildered.
Travel / Wreckage Of Crashed Missing Airplane Found by doctimi(m): 1:45am On May 20, 2016
The missing Egyptair plane is said to have crashed as released by the airline facebook page. The plane wreckage was found at karpathos island.

No survivors among the passengers and crewmembers.
Politics / Re: Full Summary Of 2016 Budget by doctimi(m): 3:02pm On May 18, 2016
i dey come
Autos / Re: 1st Body 2003 Toyota Echo Toks 2doors nowJst 770k See Pix.... by doctimi(m): 12:06pm On Apr 29, 2016
location?

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Politics / Re: Buhari’s Foreign Trips: My Takeaway -- Fashola. by doctimi(m): 10:28am On Apr 18, 2016
Fashola all the way
Autos / Re: Registered Toyota Camry (biglight) - 2001 @ N750,000.00 by doctimi(m): 10:14am On Apr 12, 2016
600k Cash
Politics / Re: Reasons Why Police & Military Shave Their Beards by doctimi(m): 1:38pm On Apr 07, 2016
They use to leave their beards back then. (confirm from pre-1966 coup military pictures.

However, when Murtala Muhammad was murdered. There was a man hunt for the 'sniper' in person of Suka Buka Dimka. He had beards then, so after the manhunt intensified with various borders locked down, he shaved his beards off in a bid to escape. Unfortunately for him, he was caught. There was argument if he was the actual dimka or not cos of the shaved beards. But the Nigerian Army were not fooled. They nabbed the killer of the best military head of state in the history of the country.

From that point, all military personnel were mandated to scrape their beards sharply and to keep it clean always.

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Crime / Re: 3 Nigerians Arrested In Vietnam For Conning People Out Of More Than $1.3m by doctimi(m): 12:19pm On Apr 06, 2016
My instinct didn't fail this time. Greed and Demonic avarice is entrenched in some people's nature. The two years I spent in the eastern region made me believe the report. Their capacity for crime, fraud and money-related evil is legendary. I hate to do this but I have to.

I had to pay for the fraud committed by one Ibo man in my office. Hate me if you like, I'll say it over and over again. The capacity for fraud is greater in any Ibo man than any other Nigerian. Followed by Benin brothers. Then Yorubas. Well i haven't experience any fraud from my northern brothers.

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Romance / Re: Nairaland Ladies: Please Advise Me (just A Simple Issue) by doctimi(m): 8:26pm On Apr 01, 2016
klenton:
She simply doesn't see a future with u

Maybe cus she ain't really serious with u or she already has someone else which she sees doing those tins as her responsibility

Either way she ain't ready


Please don't break my heart with this.
Romance / Re: Nairaland Ladies: Please Advise Me (just A Simple Issue) by doctimi(m): 1:25pm On Apr 01, 2016
blueseacats:
If she's not older than you, then it's a sign of selfishness.

I'm 4 years older than her. Selfishness? I can't say!

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