Study : The More Family Members , The Children's Low Speech
In a family with a child more than two or three , most young children often do not receive special attention from both parents . Then how they can grow and learn to talk ? His brother might help .
It was raised to a new study from Canada . Researchers realized couples with many children usually pay less attention to the development of their children , especially the youngest . But this can be compensated with a healthy interaction between the youngest with his brothers , or older siblings .
Previous research reveal children from large families tend to have a word perbendarahaan test scores and IQ lower than fewer family members .
Researcher Jennifer Jenkins said more and more members of the family , the lower the IQ and language skills of the child . Because if the couple has a second child , the attention they give to the child once first be split in two . These conditions then affect the learning process of the child .
To the researchers tried to link the influence of an older brother relationship with language ability and IQ of a child , especially in filling the void of attention from parents .
Researchers observed a number of families from Toronto , Canada , and collect 385 children with a brother whose age is at least four years older . The interaction between the mother with the youngest then assessed , as well as interaction with the younger brother . For instance judge which one is more sensitive to the ability of the child and provide positive reciprocity , whether the sister or mother.
Treasury said the boy also tested , namely by asking the child pointed to a picture after the name of objects in the image are spoken by the researcher . It turns out that children who have a lot of brothers certainly have a word perbendarahaan test scores lower than children whose families are smaller .
Conversely , children who are known to have high interaction with her brother tend to get higher scores than children who do not really care about his brother .
Not satisfied , Jenkins then plans to conduct an experiment to create a program to encourage the brothers to establish better interaction with her sisters , particularly to ascertain whether it can affect cognitive abilities younger siblings or not .
Yet Jenkins admitted if they show the limitations of their study , partly because the researchers did not observe any interaction like brother and sister owned it .
" What is clear where you actually play a very strong role in the characteristics of a child . I also want people to think that the more fraternal relationship was more than just a blood relationship and figure out how to strengthen it , " he said as quoted by Reuters on Sunday ( 02/02/2014 ) .
