And letting a child cry without responding IS neglect, I'm afraid.

Ingrid


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> >infants can experience fear as early as 7-8 months!!
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A typo, maybe?

Fear is experienced by babies much, much younger than this.

From birth, they experience great distress being separated from their mother
- this is the equivalent of fear, though it may not be cognitively
processed.

Babies who are abused learn very quickly - certainly by a few weeks - how to
avoid abuse. They 'freeze' rather than draw attention to themselves.
This is fear.

Heather Welford Neil
UK

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