Parental Discipline and Early Childhood Development in Rural China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Line 38 . Insert commas before and after ‘including China’
Line 39 insert ‘not’ before ‘attaining’
Move the phrase ‘ younger than 5 years of age’ to line 38, after the word ‘children’
Line 43 amend ‘leads one to speculate’ to ‘raises consideration of’
line 58 replace ‘home environment is’ with ‘home environment needs to be a’
Line 63 amend ‘affect’ to ‘affects’
Line 65 ‘an’ to ‘a’
Line 67 insert ‘a’ after ‘of’
Line 68 insert a comma after ‘contrary’
Line 69 amend ‘suffer’ to ‘suffers’
Line 95 insert ‘a’ before ‘widely’ Note that spanking is a form of corporal punishment. Delete ‘Spanking and’
Line 100 insert ‘were’ before ‘being’
Line 105 insert ‘children aged’ before ‘19’
Line 106 amend ‘moms’ to ‘mothers’
Line 111, remove ‘A’ before ‘research’
Line 113 insert ‘the’ before ‘previous’
Line 115 replace ‘bellicosity’ with ‘parental aggression’ replace ‘research’ with ‘study’
Line 118 replace ‘must’ with ‘necessary’
Line 129 replace ‘underpin’ with ‘underpins’
Line 131 replace ‘research’ with ‘study’
Line 136 replace ‘those have’ with ‘there was’
Line 140 replace ‘Resultantly’ with ‘consequently’
Line 147 insert ‘a’ before ‘study’
Line 148 delete ‘the’ before ‘cognitive’
Line 149 insert ‘the’ before ‘number’ and delete ‘number of’
Line 151 and 153 replace & with ‘and’
Line 154 insert commas after ‘meager’ and after ‘castigation’
Line 161 replace ‘were’ with ‘was’
Line 163 replace ‘abusing’ with ‘abuse’
Line 182 replace ‘as’ with ‘that’
Line 188 delete ‘that’
Line 215 replace ‘inquired’ with ‘invited’
Line 226 name the authors of these cited studies in the sentence.
Line 296 remove ‘that’
Line 303 insert ‘development’ after ‘cognitive’
Line 315 amend ‘children’ to ‘children’s’
Line 322 name the author of citation number 41
Line 324 name the author of 54. Amend ‘old’ to ‘olds’
Line 330 name the author cited in 79
Line 349 insert ‘a’ before ‘child’s’
Line 356 state the author of 61.
Line 358 referencing style in the paragraph is not consistent with the rest of the article
Line 364 insert ‘a’ before ‘positive’
Line 366 replace ‘strictly’ with ‘aggressively’
Line 368 amend ‘result’ to ‘results’
Line 373 insert ‘child’ before ‘development’
Author Response
We first would like to thank the reviewer for his/her comments. The comments have been helpful in revising the manuscript. We have incorporated all of the comments in the new manuscript.
Reviewer 2 Report
I have attached the comments for the authors.
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Author Response
We first would like to thank the reviewer for his/her comments. The comments have been helpful in revising the manuscript. We have checked the full text and corrected the grammatical errors
This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
