Nature Babies Describing their behavior in the future

In a study that followed nearly 1900 children from infancy up to age 13 years, found that children whose mothers gave them plenty of intellectual stimulation during the first year of life, reading to them, invite them to speak, and take them out of the house did not seem to have problems serious in their behavior.

The study concluded that the interaction of parents with their babies in the first year of life can be used to predict behavior problems later in life

At the same time, behavioral problems, trouble is also associated with a certain measure of child temperament when it grows up, like how fussy they are, or whether they were generally happy or have mood swings.
The findings concluded that parenting and child temperament is a strong indication of future behavior, the researchers conclude in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
According to the researchers, led by Dr. Benjamin B. Lahey of the University of Chicago, the findings also show potential benefits of teaching skills required by the new parents'.
"The current findings are consistent with the hypothesis that interventions focusing on parenting during the first year of life would be beneficial in preventing future child conduct problems," wrote the researchers.
The study involved 1,863 U.S. children and mothers in America. When the children were infants, researchers visited their homes and observe the interactions between them. The mothers were also interviewed about infant behavior.
Overall, Lahey's team found, babies are often fussy or has a pattern of behavior that can not be predicted - for example, become hungry or tired at different times in each day - are likely to have behavioral problems in childhood in the future.
These problems included things like acting out or cheating at school, lying, bullying other children or disobeying their parents.
Conversely, children who are not too fussy and had predictable moods as infants 'low risk' of future conduct problems, the researchers report.
'Low risk' more or less the same as seen in children whose mothers had provided plenty of intellectual stimulation in infancy - for example by reading to them or taking them out of the house regularly.
Such parenting, according to the researchers, may be a good reflection of how caring and affectionate parents in general. But stimulating activities during infancy may also facilitate the development of language for children to communicate and socialize.
As for early life and behavior in childhood, it is known that some degree determined by genetics, Lahey and his colleagues.
However, the researchers conclude, "much remains to be learned about the mechanisms through infant temperament, parenting during infancy, and problems created in the future is related matters."