FYI: Parents who express negative emotions toward their infants, or who handle them roughly results in aggressive, defiant kindergarteners...

"These researchers discovered that children who exhibit aggressive, defiant and explosive behavior by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early in life. Prior to this study it was felt that the combination of difficult infant temperament and negative parenting placed parent-child pairs at most risk for conflict in the toddler period.

Study researcher Michael Lorber, of New York University, has said in a statement. "However, our findings suggest that it was negative parenting in early infancy that mattered most." This research has found that a cycle often begins wherein negative parenting in the infant's first few months of life results in highly angry toddlers, therefore setting off more hostility from mothers. And so parents should be counseled to work hard on developing warm relations with their kids from early in life."
Negative parenting sets off aggressive personalities in kids - Syracuse natural health | Examiner.com:
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