{"id":13442,"date":"2008-12-11T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T04:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/11\/another-reason-for-kitten-time.html"},"modified":"2008-12-11T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T04:43:53","slug":"another_reason_for_kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/another_reason_for_kitten.html","title":{"rendered":"Another reason for Kitten Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Cause Daddy\/Kitten Time is good for her!<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The more effort a father invests in his children, the smarter they are as kids and more successful as adults, new research shows. And highly educated fathers make even more of a difference than less educated dads, all things being equal.<\/p>\n

“It’s not [just] about having dad around, it’s about what kind of dad he is,” says Daniel Nettle<\/a>, a psychologist at the University of Newcastle, UK, who led the new analysis, based on surveys of more than 10,000 children over half a century.<\/p>\n

[…] At age 11, children of highly involved fathers boasted markedly higher IQs than children with less present dads. “This is not half a point, this is a few points of IQ, on average,” he says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another thing I can take credit for in our daughter’s general wonderfulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Cause Daddy\/Kitten Time is good for her!  The more effort a father invests in his children, the smarter they are as kids and more successful as adults, new research shows….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1813,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/25\/kitten_will_be.html","url_meta":{"origin":13442,"position":0},"title":"Kitten will be the death of me","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Apr-02 6:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. 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