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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Devine, Paula; Lloyd, Katrina – Child Care in Practice, 2012
This paper uses data from the 2009 Kids' Life and Times Survey, involving 3657 children aged 10 or 11 years old in Northern Ireland. The survey indicated high levels of use of Internet applications, including social-networking sites and online games. Using the KIDSCREEN-27 instrument, the data indicate that the use of social-networking sites and…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Psychology, Internet
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Lloyd, Katrina; Devine, Paula – Child Care in Practice, 2006
The impact of parental child-rearing practices on child outcomes has been the subject of much research and debate for many years. Studies carried out within a variety of disciplines and across a number of different countries in the world have indicated that parents tend to use a different pattern of rearing their sons than their daughters, and…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries