Mothers' influence is decisive in tots' first year
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 10:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Study says parenting style and baby's temperament predict challenging behavior in later childhood The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother's parenting style and an infant's temperament reliably predict challenging behavior in later childhood, according to Benjamin Lahey and his team from the University of Chicago in the US. Their findings (1) have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
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