How Can I Make My Younger Sibling Stop Crying?

• Main Authors: Truzzi, Anna, Esposito, Gianluca, Coppola, Keegan B.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Infant calming response; Infant physiology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84729; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41969; http://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2016.00028
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When a baby will not stop crying, it can be frustrating. One well-known trick parents use is holding the child and walking around for a while. We are just now finding out why this trick works. It has to do with what happens in two different parts of the brain: the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS...