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Emotions

Toddler Tantrums: What Happens Psychologically

Parents who have tried to reason with a mid-tantrum toddler know, through frustrating experience, that it doesn't work. The developmental neuroscience...

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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Infant Emotions

A baby who can't tolerate the smallest frustration, cries the moment you put them down, takes 25 minutes to recover from a minor upset, and looks "wir...

4 min read

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How Fear Develops in Infancy

The fears that show up in your baby's first year — wariness of strangers, panic at separation, terror at the vacuum cleaner — are easy to mistake for...

5 min read

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What Is Happening in a Toddler's Brain During a Tantrum

A toddler mid-meltdown — screaming, kicking, bright red, inconsolable about the wrong colour cup — is in a state of genuine neurological crisis. That'...

7 min read