About 10 percent of children are born with difficult temperaments. Each difficult child is unique, but difficult children, by definition, are strong-willed, intense, irritable, negative, demanding, ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Or Dagan, Long Island University Post and Carlo Schuengel, Vrije Universiteit ...

Some children are labeled difficult before they can speak — and it turns out that label was hiding the most interesting thing ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The most well-adjusted person in a dysfunctional family is almost always the one everyone agrees is the problem.

Talking helps if you've been through a difficult experience. But for children who have been victims of or witnesses to ...