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By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY The way your family interacts at home can affect how your kids do in school, a study suggests today in the journal Child Development. Researchers at the University of Rochesterin New York and the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Ind., spent three years looking at the relationship patterns in 234 families with 6-year-olds and found a distinct family-school connection, with certain family types predicting problems in school. Researchers evaluated each family annually, in two visits of two to three hours each. "We have a marital assessment, a parent-child assessment for moms and dads separately, and we have the whole family together," says lead author Melissa Sturge-Apple, assistant professor of psychology at Rochester. "It gave us a much broader look at the family system per se." The team found data that support the theory of three distinct psychological types of families: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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