It is well recognized that when parents provide higher quality stimulation of language and cognitive development and provide warm emotional nurturance, children develop greater emotional competence, acquire larger vocabularies, perform better on a variety of cognitive measures, and achieve greater success academically (e.g., Bornstein and Tamis-LeMonda, 1989 M. Bornstein and C.S. Tamis-LeMonda, Maternal responsiveness and cognitive development in children. In: M.H. Bornstein, Editor, Maternal responsiveness: Characteristics and consequences, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (1989), pp. 49–61.Bornstein and Tamis-LeMonda, 1989, Hart and Risley, 1995, Landry et al., 2001, Tomasello, 1988 and Weizman and Snow, 2001). In light of this established body of knowledge, numerous interventions have been developed to assist parents in developing the skills necessary to provide optimal support for their children's development (e.g., Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2003, Beckwith and Rodning, 1992 and......

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