Toddlers’ Early Language Skills May Influence Later Anger Management

A new study published in the journal Child Development draws a connection between early language skills and emotional growth and also show a relationship to later development of anger management skills.

“We found that toddlers who have stronger language skills than other toddlers, and whose language skills develop faster over time, tend to be better at regulating frustration when they’re preschool aged,” says the study's lead author, Caroline Roben, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Delaware.

“It’s well recognized these days that emotion regulation is important for success in school,” Roben says. “When you’re doing things to promote [your children's] language skills, their verbal world, you may be doing something to promote their emotional development as well.”

Want to read more? Here's a link to the Penn State Live article where this was featured.