Screaming children find sudden relief, shy and
fearful children find courage, impatient and angry children find peace and discouraged children find the will to go on.
Not exact matches
Most parents recognize that a
fearful, easily upset
child isn't a happy camper, but Holinger
finds that many parents don't recognize that an angry
child is usually expressing sadness.
, but a very
fearful child is likely to
find comfort from having Fido or Mittens nearby, preferably in a pet bed of their own.
Moreover, he
found that those
children who never were permitted to bed - share were actually more
fearful than
children who always slept in their parent's bed, for all of the night (1).
Heron's 1994 study of middle class English
children found children who never slept in their parents bed tended to be harder to control, less happy, exhibited a greater number of tantrums and were more
fearful than
children who always slept in their parents bed.
If you
find your
child cowers when you raise your hand, this is a sign that they're
fearful of you.
The researchers
found both teens with autism and their caregivers felt
fearful and anxious about the teens becoming adults; caregivers also reported lacking social, educational and vocational resources to help their
children prepare for their futures.
A most important
finding [in a recent study] was that the
fearful or anxious
children, defined... as those with seven or more worries, did not seem to be in any particular psychological trouble.
Even the most shy or
fearful child has
found the courage to pet Sandy!
That old phrase tossed out by parents at
fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have
found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.
She again
found that only
fearful, insecure
children exhibited increased salivary cortisol.
Subsequently, a birth parent may have never told their partner,
children or grandchildren about the birth and may be
fearful of the consequences of their secret being
found out.
For many women, anger was not allowed to be expressed, and they may
find themselves triggered into feeling angry themselves, or helpless or even
fearful, when their
children are angry.
Based on previous
findings on attention to emotional stimuli in
children with disruptive behaviors (e.g., Kimonis et al., 2012; Hodsoll et al., 2014), we hypothesized that higher levels of CU traits would be associated with reduced attention toward
fearful and angry faces, while higher levels of ODD - related problems would be associated with greater attention toward both negative and positive (happy) emotional faces.
For this interaction, we
found that that the slope was significantly different from 0 at high levels of CU traits, t (48) = − 2.30, p < 0.05, showing that for
children with high levels of CU traits, higher ODD - related problems were significantly associated with higher avoidance of
fearful faces (see Figure 5).