Which came first, the exhausted parent or the screechy parenting style that can accompany that level of tired?
That's the question raised by an Australian study that found mothers who yell or hit their kids are more likely to have toddlers with sleep difficulties.
Pediatrician
Harriet Hiscock studied 4600 families and found that children were
twice as likely to have sleep problems that persisted though the
toddler years if their mothers had a hostile parenting style
characterized by yelling and smacking than a more warm demeanor.
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