(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 ...

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) 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 ...

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, ...

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

Every day, people must decide what to spend their time on, weighing the costs and benefits of their effort. But the question of how 5- to 7-year-old children decide what’s worth their energy might ...

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