Child Social Behaviour
Your baby is becoming much more socially adept by now, and takes a great deal of pleasure in meeting and being with other people. His interactions with you are increasingly comprehensive as he learns to understand certain words and phrases, [...]
Baby Will
From six months onward your baby will show his assertiveness in his demands and preferences. Your older baby is:
Very eager to show how grown up he is becoming
Determined to be independent and to manage without help
Demonstrating likes and [...]
Outings With Baby
Your baby is never too young for an outing; indeed, with a young baby you can go just about anywhere and, provided he can look around him, he will enjoy the change of scene even if he doesn’t understand much of what’s going on. When planning [...]
Baby Stranger Anxiety
As your baby grows up, her desire to do things far outstrips her ability to do them, and so she becomes frustrated. This often results in crying. As she starts to crawl, then cruises along the furniture, then walks, you will almost certainly [...]
Anxiety in Children
As your baby gets older, she becomes increasingly aware of strangers. Those situations that cause her most anxiety are being in a strange place with you, or being with strangers. As long as you’re there she can cope, but being left in a strange [...]
Separation Anxiety in Babies
When your baby is about six to eight months, separation from a parent becomes the greatest source of distress to her and nearly always precipitates crying. Try to get your baby accustomed to separation over several months by leaving her for [...]
Older Baby Crying
As your baby grows older and her world becomes more complex, the causes of crying change. In an older baby, the cause is nearly always illness or some form of emotional disturbance: mother leaving and the deprivation of her love, fear, anxiety, [...]