A group of international researchers examined parental methods to help toddlers sleep across 14 cultures and found that these methods are related to the development of a child's temperament. The ...

A group of international researchers examined parental methods to help toddlers sleep across 14 cultures and found that these methods are related to the development of a child’s temperament. The ...

Key points Some child temperament characteristics can pose challenges for parenting effectively. It's important that parents build strong, positive relationships and manage their own emotional ...

A research team tracked children from infancy through age 3 to explore the roots of emotional overeating. Parents/caregivers were surveyed about the children's temperaments and whether they consumed ...

Vol. 89, No. 6, SPECIAL SECTION: Meta-analysis and Individual Participant Data Synthesis in Child Development (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018), pp. 2118-2135 (18 pages) Maternal postpartum depression, ...

Imagine two children from the same family: One child is loud, outgoing and always on the run, while the other is content to sit and read a book, likes to stick to a schedule and is usually quiet. If ...

The scientists found that babies who were especially active and energetic in their first month of life were far more ...

I often hear from parents that common parenting advice hasn’t worked well with their children, or that what was effective with one child did not seem to work with another child. This often comes up ...

The roots of emotional overeating may be found in individual temperament and self-regulation of one’s emotions, but caregivers’ responses to children’s negative emotions significantly influences ...