Parents may worry about connecting with a child who is hard to comfort. hobo_018/E+ via Getty Images Children with difficult temperaments, including personality tendencies such as irritability and ...

Children who experience disorganized attachment often fear their caregivers, but crave their attention. If you think your ...

Children are likely to develop secure attachment by having available, sensitive, and responsive caregivers. When that’s not the case, a child may develop an insecure attachment, which can take several ...

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Children with difficult temperaments, including personality tendencies such as irritability and having a hard time being comforted, are only slightly more likely than other children to have insecure ...

"In order to ban autocracy, exploitation, and inequality in the world, we must first realize that the first inequality in life is that of child and adult." —Erik Erikson For humans, a highly social ...

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April 2, 2010 — A new meta-analysis has uncovered a significant association, especially in boys, between an insecure maternal attachment in early childhood and later externalizing problems. The ...

You can develop an anxious attachment style if your parents were inconsistently attentive to your needs in infancy and childhood. How a caregiver interacts with a baby or young child can affect the ...