"Nurturance" refers to the act of caring, supporting, and helping someone or something grow and develop. It means providing love, guidance, and attention to foster their well-being.
The child uses the attached caregiver as a source of nurturance for adaptive cognitive, social and emotional development. (drbobevans.com)
If there is a downside to high levels of nurturance in child rearing, it is the risk that nurturant parents might be more lax than other parents in challenging their children to measure up to developmentally appropriate standards for behavior. (cyc-net.org)
The first intervention component helps caregivers to re-interpret children's behavioral signals so that they provide nurturance even when it is not elicited. (cebc4cw.org)