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Bundle of Nerves?
How Your Emotions Affect Your Baby's Attitude
By Gina Roberts-Grey, LCSW
It is important that we understand that because of their limited verbal communication skills, children under the age of 18 months react to the emotions of their parents in many ways. Tension will be evident in their daily habits. Posey's findings also indicate that a child trying to react to and cope with his parent's emotions might begin having trouble falling or remaining asleep, displaying trouble eating or seem fussier than normal. "If a parent or caregiver is not calm, [is] preoccupied or over-stressed it reflects in subtle ways to a child," says Posey. "The child can notice your feelings in the way he is held and carried."
Pamela Biegler, a psychologist in Little Rock, Ark., explains that our emotions come through in the simple act of picking your child up from the floor. "Your baby will notice the quicker swooping motion consistent with tension instead of a slower movement associated with
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