I'm joining the discussion very late, but I just wanted to say that it makes me sad to hear such negative words thrown around about babies. Words like moody, mean, manipulative, demanding, etc. It seems inappropriate to me to pigeon hole and predict a person's life long personality based on their behavior as an infant
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I totally agree. We had relatives describing a family members infant as mooody, mean, manipulative, all sorts of negatives. It was horrifying. From my point of view the DC was intense, in all things, happy sad, just very intense. But the negatives were so unhelpful one even went so far as to say unlovable. To my mind it says much much more about the adult to be so negative and critical.
We had the opposite, DS as an infant had an incredible tolerance for pain and a personality preference for being happy. Looking back it was almost as if he was so interested in the world that he could put up with anything up to a point. But people responded better to him than our relatives dc because he was "nicer" more lovable so to speak. Yet they would have totally missed his issues because he wasn't as high maintenance as his cousin. Stereotyping personality screws kids on so many levels!!!
DeHe
