Nurturing Your Young Child's Emotional Development (Audio)

Children’s mental health is an important part of their overall well-being. To help guide parents, Mary Margaret Gleason, MD, FAAP is interviewed about child behavior, emotions and other mental health topics. Dr. Gleason is a pediatrician, psychiatrist and child psychiatrist at Tulane University School of Medicine. She is a member of the AAP Committee on Early Childhood.

• Listen to the entire interview
• Choose an individual question:
• What does infant mental health include?
• What can happen if a toddler does not have healthy relationships?
• How can parents nurture their young child’s emotional development?
• Can you talk about colic?
• Where does separation anxiety come from?
• What do you do when your 7-month-old cries at day care drop-off?
• What’s behind temper tantrums? When do they end?
• What infant/toddler behaviors indicate a mental health problem?
• If a parent is worried, what should they do?
• Any final advice?
• Edited transcript