{"id":59748,"date":"2014-11-05T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59748"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:52:00","slug":"you-cant-raise-your-kids-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59748","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Raise Your Kids&#8217; IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/10\/30\/genetics-not-upbringing-main-influencer-in-childs-iq-study-says\/?intcmp=ob_homepage_health&#038;intcmp=obnetwork\">From FoxNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that parental socialization had no detectable influence on children\u2019s intelligence later in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrevious research that has detected parenting-related behaviors affect intelligence is perhaps incorrect because it hasn\u2019t taken into account genetic transmission,\u201d study author Kevin Beaver, a criminology professor at FSU, said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Some studies suggest that parents who interact with their kids over family dinners or by reading them bedtimes stories can boost their children\u2019s IQ, while other research suggests that children\u2019s IQs are only a product of their genetics.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing children who shared no DNA with their adoptive parents eliminated the possibility that parental socialization influenced a child\u2019s intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn previous research, it looks as though parenting is having an effect on child intelligence, but in reality the parents who are more intelligent are doing these things and it is masking the genetic transformation of intelligence to their children,\u201d Beaver said.<\/p>\n<p>Beaver noted that the findings don\u2019t suggest that parents shouldn\u2019t engage with their children, but rather that parents don\u2019t have to go to extremes to influence their offspring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way you parent a child is not going to have a detectable effect on their IQ as long as that parenting is within normal bounds,\u201d Beaver said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FoxNews: Researchers found that parental socialization had no detectable influence on children\u2019s intelligence later in life. \u201cPrevious research that has detected parenting-related behaviors affect intelligence is perhaps incorrect because it hasn\u2019t taken into account genetic transmission,\u201d study author Kevin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59748\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59749,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59748\/revisions\/59749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}