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Understanding Attachment in Young Children
Why do babies cry when their mother leaves the room? Why do young children seek out a parent for a hug when they get ...
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Healing the Hurt of Separation
Children thrive on connection with their parents. Their need for a sense of connection is strong and constant through ...
Source: Hand in Hand
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Separation Anxiety
Unfortunately, teary and tantrum-filled goodbyes are a very common part of a child's earliest years. Around the first ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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Separating from Infants and Toddlers
Separating from our loved ones is a lifelong process. If you think of separation in the broadest terms, it begins at ...
Source: Bananas Inc.
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Strategies for Dealing With Overdependency in Children
OverdependencyOverdependent behavior involves intensely seeking help, affection, or attention from another person, ...
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Fathers, Day Care, and Attachment
Until now, we have focused exclusively on infant-mother attachments. What about fathers, and what does the research ...
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What is the Role of Attachment?
One of the most important items that any child carries with him is his relationship with his primary caregiver. This ...
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The Importance of Early Attachments
Secure early attachments are said to pave the way for later psychosocial developments. Erikson and Bowlby portrayed the ...
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Trust-Building: Babies to Teens
Maintaining parent-child relationships during the teenage years can be a challenge. Fortunately, if you start at a ...
Source: St. Louis Children's Hospital
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Letting Go of A Security Symbol
Why do some children have security symbols and some don't?Actually, all children have some type of security symbol at ...
Source: Heartland Family Service
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Good Parenting Basics
The following guidelines emerged over years from the author's parenting classes. ABC stands for always be consistent. ...
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Child Care and Attachment
For many who come from the tradition of mother-child attachment as an exclusive relationship, a crucial question is: ...
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Observation Guidelines: Assessing Young Children's Attachment Security
Secure AttachmentLook For: Active, intentional exploration of the environment in the presence of the caregiver ...
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You and Your Child: Forming Attachments
Children need to form secure attachments to parents and other caring adults. This begins in the earliest days of a ...
Additional Content
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Attachment Parenting: The Key to Thriving Kids?
What exactly is attachment parenting? According to a huge body of scientific research, it can have a major impact on a...
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Are You a Helicopter Parent?
It's healthy for a parent to want to protect a child. What's not, many experts warn, is the modern tendency to stay...
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How Does Attachment Affect Behavior?
According to Bowlby (1969/1982), infants construct internal working models of how relationships work based on their...
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Nurturance In Families
Generally, nurturance means providing the basic necessities of life for children, but in a wider sense, it denotes...
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Social and Emotional Development
The first of Erikson’s psychosocial stages, basic trust versus basic mistrust, begins at birth and lasts about...
