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 ...

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The U.S. is in the midst of a baby obesity epidemic. A quarter of our 2 to 5-year-olds are now overweight, according to a study published in JAMA in 2012, and a child’s obesity at age 5 is a strong ...

This meta-analytic review (k = 5-10; N = 258-895) examined links between attachment insecurity and physiological activity at baseline and in response to interpersonal stress elicited by ...

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