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4. Optimistic infants: T. Berry Brazelton, in the preface to
Heart Start: The Emotional Foundations of School Readiness
(Arlington, VA: National Center for Clinical Infant
Programs, 1992).
5. Emotional predictors of school success: Heart Start.
6. Elements of school readiness: Heart Start, p. 7.
7. Infants and mothers: Heart Start, p. 9.
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8. Damage from neglect: M. Erickson et al., "The Relationship
Between Quality of Attachment and Behavior Problems
in Preschool in a High-Risk Sample," in I. Betherton
and E. Waters, eds., Monographs of the Society of Research
in Child Development 50, series no. 209-
9. Lasting lessons of first four years: Heart Start, p. 13.
10. The follow-up of aggressive children: L. R. Huesman,
Leonard Eron, and Patty Warnicke-Yarmel, "Intellectual
Function and Aggression," The Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology (Jan. 1987). Similar findings were reported
by Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, in the
September 1988 issue of Child Development, in their study
of seventy-five children who were assessed at regular intervals
since 1956, when they were between seven and twelve
years old. Alexander Thomas et al., "Longitudinal Study of
Negative Emotional States and Adjustments From Early
Childhood Through Adolescence," Child Development 59
(1988). A decade later the children who parents and