European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F emotional development lust a they pats through to Tref of physical development. Believe Lions and tigers were Ealing her dolls. With the help of therapists who used her toys As role models. The girl Learned to express the feelings of kindness and sweetness she eventually wrapped the Lions and tigers in a baby Blanket and told the therapist they were tame he said. Not All babies treated Tor psychological problems come from problem Homes psychologists said. Some Are called difficult babies by their exasperated parents who complain their own infants push them away cry constantly or ignore the world around them. Sometimes we have situations where the Mother is of and the baby is out of synch said Modarressi of the Baltimore clinic. Many such babies Suiter from physical problems usually digestive difficulties or allergies doctors said. But others appear to be physically healthy. These Dilt cult babies Are the subject of debate in the Field. Some argue babies Are born with specific personalities and occasionally personality disorders that Manifest from birth. But most experts interviewed argued thai difficult babies Are Only born with temperaments that Are difficult for adults to respond to. Greenspan said he believes some babies Are Overly sensitive to stimuli and become easily disorientated and upset with tights noise or unfamiliar sensations against their skin. The parents Aren t bad. They just Don t realize the problem he said. The psychiatrist said it helps to discover which things Over stimulate the baby and then avoid them. Sometimes you find a special position that you can Tell makes the baby relax he said. They just take a Ilelle longer to understand Nachman. Who observes babies through a one Way Mirror at the new school s Margaret Mahler observation research Nursery said she also believes the vast majority of Infanta will respond normally if adults around them can learn what makes them Happy and what makes them frustrated. I have seen expectations become self fulfilling prophesies she said if a Parent looks Al a child and thinks this child is just completely different from my other children then it becomes  deprived Bable who do not receive treatment May grow up to be perfectly Normal. But they also said problems apparent in infancy May intensify in childhood. We see results Bennett said of his Harlem clinic. We also see children in first Ana second Grade Ivhon have been abused As infants and who Are deeply troubled perhaps if we had been Able to intervene we could have headed this Oil he said. A Young Mother who asked not to be identified said she took her then 10-Monlh-old baby to an Plant psychology Center because he was a holy terror and said she was Happy with the treatment Hoy Hoth received. The yield of infant psychology is too Young to have had follow up Long term studies of cases Iho experts said. Bui they said treatment will definitely not hurl a troubled baby and probably will help even in Only in a Small Ivay. The Besl thing Aboul babies is they re so Clastic Nachman said emotional development of babes by Gayle Young United press International Abies first smile around i hair second month of life say their first word when they Aro approximately seven months old and take their first tottering Steps sometime around nine months. The Slages of motor development Are Well known and anti Nipa led by most parents. Bui doctors say babies Elso go through similar stages i emotional development. Although loss pronounced than the physical skills of grasping and crawling the emotional development of falling in love and protesting authority May be just As important. Try to describe the Slages of emotional development in the a me Way we think of motor development said or. Stanley Greenspan a no cd child psychiatrist and author of the Book first feelings. All babies have i hair own styles of development he said. But there Are some things in common Greenspan professor of child development Al Iho George Washington University medical school in Washington said research both his own and Fiat of others has shown newborns As Young As a Lew Days can be calmed by voices especially those of i hair mothers. By two months babies should not Only to smiling but in love with the world he said Well adjusted babies Between the Ages of 2 and 7 months arc Joyful giggling and  ii is an experience in joyfulness unmatched in later  Greenspan said it is love in its Purist  but somewhere Between 3 and 9 months other emotions Are added to a Well adjusted baby s repertoire including anger contusion and irus Lvalion. It is around this age that babies gesture to be picked up by holding out their arms with these gestures. Greenspan said go demand and protest two vital feelings used in communication Between humans. It s very important Lor babies to have interaction with adults at his Lime. Ii they Are ignored if they Don l have interaction they Don t know How to give hair emotions  from 9 to is months infants begin to understand the complexities of human communication. Greenspan said children this age learn to be satisfied with verbal reassurance rather than physical reassurance. Mommy can say that s Nice from across Ine room and they re Happy he said. By the time they reach 18 months of age. Most children learn to control and even manipulate i heir emotions doctors said. You can see them gulp a few times Belore Hoy snarl crying said child psychologist Patricia Nachman of the new school for social research who studies children m an Observatory. They seem to realize they can love someone even if they re mad Al them Greenspan said Jii 15 a very crucial time in their  Greenspan said toddlers Irani 18 to 30 months begin to View emotions in the abstract. Dolls Stafl hugging each  he said you Don t Sec this Type of play before then. They know How to give emotion meaning and apply Illo a situation it s very exciting to  Arch 27,1987 the stars and stripes Page is