Should I cry? Infants. Of course they don't know much, so they've got to figure out all the bits. A thing I find interesting of my little one is how he reacts to unknown and "scary" situations, such as the little incidents or noisy events. Let's say a pot fell on the ground, making some noise. He will seek for me, with an alarmed expression, but not crying quite yet. Not even knowing how to speak, he will ask me with his eyes what to do: should I cry or should I laugh of it? Then if I laugh he will laugh, and ...I'm guessing he will cry if I also look worried. I didn't try, and I don't see why I should look worried for something like that. Another "dot" to interpolate: some time ago we visited a couple of friends, and they've a little girl. She started messing around with some fairly unbalanced object, making it fall on the ground. She fell on the ground too, but fortunately with no damage. While knowing nothing bad happened, her father jumped to the rescue, and consoled her. He explicitly told us how he prevented any crying by not looking worried in the first place, for a thing that didn't deserve in fact any worrying. Third example: me and my wife saw a video where a father walks around carrying a baby. He knocks a door, causing a little noise, and then assumes a caring and defensive behaviour, as the baby was hit. The baby starts to cry, even if literally nothing happened. I found this video moderately amusing, and the father a bit of an idiot, to be honest, but this confirmed the intuition: we're worried when we're told so, and this happens since day 0. So I now learned that I want to teach my son not to be worried, but to face difficulties coldly.