What is a "High Need" Baby?

If parents ignore their baby's needs, it can have a highly detrimental effect. Their child's needs will resurface later when the child is older, perhaps as an adult, for, as Dr. Sears explains it in his book Parenting the Fussy Baby and High Need Child, "Babies who are 'trained' not to express their needs may appear to be docile, compliant, or 'good' babies. Yet these babies could be depressed babies who are shutting down the expression of their needs, and they may become children who don't ever speak up to get their needs met and eventually become the highest-need adults" (pg 39).

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