"That has helped get parents' attention, " Dr Seeley said.
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The undisputed centre of his over-protective parents' attention (when he went up to Oxford, his mother went to live with him), he was never really able to separate himself from them, and his personality always retained a childlike quality which made it hard for him to form adult relationships, especially with women.
"I go up and ask parents to pay attention to their kids, " she says.
Many of them work full time, have aging parents in need of care and attention, or are parents themselves.
They have gone down to Florida to stand in solidarity with Trayvon's parents and bring attention to the issues surrounding his death.
Our own busy lives may cause us to be less than conscious of the subtle changes and warning signs that parents need our attention, especially with money.
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Chinese parents then turned attention to Japanese formula.
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Oddly enough, Hillary Clinton, one of the politicians who has led the criticism of the gaming industry in America, has recently come round to this view. (Perhaps someone gave her a Nintendo Wii.) Last month she emphasised the need for parents to pay more attention to game ratings and called on the industry, retailers and parents to work together.
If there's a prolonged pause in breathing or they have trouble breathing, that's an important sign and parents should seek medical attention immediately, she explains.
Parents often focus their attention on safety and the threat of potential predators and typically not on potential dangers when their teenager dates someone they know who is is from their own community.
Well into the nineteen-fifties, psychologists were encouraging parents to give children less attention and affection, in order to encourage independence.
It is a market failure in the sense that the incentives for men to control resources and dole them out (including even in a stipend for extended maternity leave that the female workers pay for themselves mostly) end up leaving children without the optimal equal attention and support from both parents.
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One reason the issue has attracted more attention in recent years is that parents who deal with school bullying realize it can happen in the workplace, too.
On a recent afternoon, Aidan and his parents admitted they were somewhat baffled by the attention for a project that began two years ago on a winter hiking trip through the Catskill Mountains.
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"With this data now available from more than one study, it really becomes the responsibility of parents, physicians, and teachers to pay attention to the relative-age effect and not intervene with treatment and labeling of children who it's no fault of their own what time of year they were born, " Garland says.
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For a while, after Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" focused belated attention on the quietly heroic lives of our parents and grandparents, it finally seemed that the oldest Americans were being allowed to take a victory lap.
The parents were amazed that their kids, normally with a short attention span, instantly took to solving the puzzles that we presented.
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Patel saw his parents work hard to attain their middle class status and focus their attention on helping he and his siblings aspire to the great American Dream of building and owning your own business.
She added that the Association had noticed several calls by worried parents over the last year, which it thought were prompted by media attention on some high-profile court cases.
"If parents are responsible, are monitoring their children's behavior, paying attention to them, spending time with them, that's going to have a positive effect and protect them from going down the path of alcohol and drug abuse, " says Maria M.
The victim's parents, in a recent interview at their Delhi home, appeared ambivalent about the attention they are receiving.
Mr Thompson also urged parents and teachers to remain vigilant for signs of the disease and to seek medical attention if they are at all concerned.
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My parents, who were struggling just to make ends meet, didn't pay much attention to my second brother.
When the children reached the age of seven, their parents and school teachers were asked to assess their social and emotional behaviour - including hyperactivity and attention problems.
In the statement, the foreign ministry drew attention to the lack of medicines found in his body, even though the adoptive parents said they had been treating him with "a strong psychotropic medication".
The case drew attention from top U.S. and Singapore government officials after Mr. Todd's parents, Rick and Mary Todd of Marion, Mont.
It has reached the point where struggling parents have to choose between a low-wage job and welfare so their children can receive basic medical attention.
He has put this ardent attention at the center of a beautifully told and emotionally satisfying story for children and their movie-loving parents.
And couples with a child who has been diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit disorder) are 22.7% more likely to divorce before their child turns eight than parents of a child without ADHD.
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The less bright side is that parents are buying ever more fancy clothes, toys and special snacks for their little precious - while paying precious little attention to their own needs and desires.
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