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Does your baby swing high or low on the temperament scale? Focus on the traits where he hits one ... (Most babies are average for most traits, so not every one will be an issue for your child.) Then use the key below ("How to handle your baby's traits") to figure out how to best work with your baby's unique personality.
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Sometimes parents and babies have conflict because their temperaments are so similar or dissimilar, but the idea is that if you understand your baby's temperament you can match your expectations and parenting style accordingly.
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In the 1960s, some psychologists in New York started the largest study of temperament ever conducted. It ran for three decades and assessed 131 babies from the age of three months until adulthood. At the end of the study, the researchers proposed the following nine characteristics of temperament:
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There are three major types of temperament: easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up. Easy babies are just that: they adapt easily to new situations, react mildly to things, and have a positive and happy mood most of the time.
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; From: Center for the Advancement of Health; Moms Misperceive Premature Babies Temperament ... The mothers of premature infants tend to have unwarranted negative perceptions of their babies' temperament, a perception that could predict future behavior problems, researchers say.
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For most mothers reality is quite different: driven to distraction and despair by a baby that cries long and loud for no discernible reason. So why do babies cry, and what can you do when your baby is howling inconsolably?
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Just as babies are born with their own combination of physical characteristics such as hair and eye color, skin tone, and physique, behavioral scientists know that each one has patterns of behavior, or temperament, that are also part of their uniqueness.
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Dr. Carey says parents can learn to handle each of their children's traits to minimize stress. Parents need to remember that their child's temperament characteristics are inborn, not learned behavior.
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When it comes to timid or slow-to-warm-up babies, don't push your child too hard but don't back off either, Dr. Carey says. "Find ways of helping your child get competence in social situations and cope with fears of unknown," he says. ... "Kids can, we believe, moderate their expression of a temperament."
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