Sentences with phrase «attachment to the mother does»

We also know that the quality of the child's attachment to the mother does not predict the quality of the child's attachment to the alternative caregiver (Howes and others, 1988).

Not exact matches

«One thing that bed - sharing serves to do is to permit mothers to validate their role as mothers,» says McKenna, who notes that working mothers in his experience have felt inadequate at bonding and creating attachment.

It promotes practices that are not scientifically linked to secure attachments but that do keep mothers securely attached to their homes.

Then I felt that I had to do every aspect of Attachment Parenting or I was a bad mother.

Sroufe unpacks feeding as an example: A mother could breastfeed, but do it in a mechanical and insensitive way, potentially contributing to an insecure attachment.

But the attachment figure doesn't have to be the mother or even a parent.

«There's so much discussion about bonding with a new baby that mothers often feel guilty if they don't feel some incredible attachment to their new baby immediately,» says Edward Christophersen, a pediatric psychologist in Kansas City, Missouri.

I briefly covered what happens to attachment when the mother and child are separated right after birth but did not cover these other separations.

Children have attachments to other people other than their mothers, but they do not show this attachment the same way.

More to the point, are women who don't care whether there's true gender equality but follow the tenets of attachment parenting not actually attachment parenting mothers?

What I wish I could say out loud, but will do cowardly in print instead, is to express the desire to respond in kind...» So, my adoptive mother read everything under the sun about attachment and diagnosed me with reactive attachment disorder.

I'm an Attachment Parenting mother (though I do fail from time to time!)

Although, I do admit to thinking that attachment parenting won't really result in a generation of well - adjusted people as it will a generation of pains - in - the - ass, overbearing mothers - in - law.

Not just attachment parents... and every mother goes through stages of utter exhaustion and confusion over what she should do to get more sleep.

Allowing the mother to nurse in the operating room, keeping mother and baby together in the recovery room, and having newborn tests and procedures done with the baby on mom's chest are other ways that a family - centered cesarean can support early attachment.

Don't think has anything to do with mothers attachmendo with mothers attachment!

found that depressed mothers with lower levels of attachment anxiety showed improvements in sensitivity to child cues relative to those with higher levels of attachment anxiety and those who did not receive home visiting.

Don't even get her started on attachment parenting, which in its most basic form is when a child sleeps in their parents» bed and is strapped to their mother in a sling.

I could do like other men and delegate the responsibility to the mothers and other caregivers, but Attachment Parenting shows me how I could take responsibility through positive discipline instead.

Although I wanted to help other mothers breastfeed multiples and find which parenting tips worked — and which ones didn't, I also needed to be with the only other mothers I knew could truly understand what I and our family was going through but also understand why breastfeeding and attachment parenting still mattered.

I wish I'd been able to express it the way Another Reader did: «We practice Attachment Parenting, not Attachment Mothering.»

At that time, I didn't know anything about attachment or how important breastfeeding behaviors are to the mother - baby emotional bond — that breastfeeding is the very model of attachment, as explained by Attachment Parenting International's co-founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker in their book, Attached at attachment or how important breastfeeding behaviors are to the mother - baby emotional bond — that breastfeeding is the very model of attachment, as explained by Attachment Parenting International's co-founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker in their book, Attached at attachment, as explained by Attachment Parenting International's co-founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker in their book, Attached at Attachment Parenting International's co-founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker in their book, Attached at the Heart.

Unfortunately, in a meta - analysis of 139 studies with 13,835 children, the AQS was only found to be valid when trained observers did the rating after observing the mother and child interact for several hours: «It is concluded that the observer AQS, but not the self reported AQS, is a valid measure of attachment» (IJzendoorn et al., 2004, p. 1206).

However, different children have different needs for comfort and make different entrances into the world, into differing environments, so having a close attachment with your mother may not be a clear predictor of being able to do without a special cuddly toy.

Research from the University of Minnesota has shown that children age 2 and up who lack secure attachments to their mothers have higher rushes of cortisol during even mildly stressful events, such as getting a vaccination shot, than do youngsters with strong parental bonds.

Children with single parents move more frequently than other children do, partly because of economic hardship (which forces parents to seek less expensive accommodation in other areas) and partly because single parents form new romantic attachments (as when a single mother marries and moves in with her new husband).

However nothing — absolutely nothing — in any research by Lamb or anyone else has found that infants «need» more than one caregiver, that they do better with more than one caregiver, that they need a father any more than they need a grandmother or older brother, or that any of these secondary attachments, to the extent they do form, are of equal importance to an infant's having a strong and healthy bond with its primary caregiver mother.

found that depressed mothers with lower levels of attachment anxiety showed improvements in sensitivity to child cues relative to those with higher levels of attachment anxiety and those who did not receive home visiting.

Lamb notes above that somehow babies form attachments to their fathers (and others) in intact homes even though fathers spend less time with the children than mothers do.

However, Lamb's claim above, which is the «but» last sentence in his preceding paragraph, while technically true as a statement of the research findings that a co-resident father in an intact loving home who develops a secondary attachment with an infant does not diminish the infant's attachment to the also - present mother is false to the extent its placement in this article has been done in a way intended to imply that this applies to nonresident fathers.

In fact, infants who spend too much time in day care (more than 30 hours a week) do suffer damage to mother - child attachments.

An often mis - cited study by Solomon (1997) reported high levels of insecure infant - mother and infant - father attachment when parents lived apart, although toddlers who spent overnights with both their fathers and mothers were not significantly more likely to have insecure relationships than those children who did not have overnight visits with both parents.

In fact, above, Lamb points out, right above in his article that «infants form meaningful attachments to both of their parents... even though many fathers in our culture spend less time with their infants than mothers do.»

Don't get me wrong, as a marriage and family therapist and a mother myself, I am fully aware of the importance of inclusivity and attention required to create a secure attachment between parent and child.

If they don't form that all - important secure attachment to their mother, or if it is worn away by constant handovers from one parent to the other without a sense of a secure home in the background, the break - up will leave them vulnerable to lifelong feelings of insecurity and anxiety.

Sroufe has found that even though these children lead unstable lives, if they had a secure mother - infant attachment they were likely to be self - reliant into adolescence, have lower rates of psychopathology, enjoy successful peer relationships through age 16 and do well in school - especially in math - at all ages.

Unless child care quality is very poor, or the mother is insensitive to a child's needs, non-parental child care does not appear to undermine the security of the infant — mother attachment per se, but there are indications that this relationship may be more vulnerable when the mother herself provides less sensitive care and her child experiences poorer quality care, more changes in arrangements or many hours of care.

Children have attachments to other people other than their mothers, but they do not show this attachment the same way.

But when a mother's capacity to do so is limited by her own personality or stressful conditions then infants with difficult temperament or problem behaviors are at risk for developing attachment insecurity.

The following types of questions can help an evaluator to elucidate these effects: Does the mother acknowledge that past attachment experiences exert an effect on who she is today?

But the attachment figure doesn't have to be the mother or even a parent.

The new understanding about the importance of good attachment between infant and mother — and the high cost of poor attachment, abuse and neglect — validated the work that infant mental health specialists had been doing for years, and brought new respect and funding to the field.

This means that it lacks validity, as it does not measure a general attachment style, but instead an attachment style specific to the mother.

The other two insecure attachment styles did provide the child with a coping strategy: • Avoidant attachment was characterized by the child's emotional disengagement - a defensive strategy to the mother's lack of response; «Why bother reaching out when nothing happens»!

Sroufe unpacks feeding as an example: A mother could breastfeed, but do it in a mechanical and insensitive way, potentially contributing to an insecure attachment.

The next phase, attachment - in - the making phase, takes place from three to four months and is marked by an infant's emerging preference to be held by familiar figures, although it is important to note that the figure does not necessarily have to be the mother.

William and Martha Sears emphasize that attachment parenting doesn't mean that mothers must be anxious about their baby's every move nor that they have to personally respond to the baby every time, but rather involve Dad as much as possible.

Although we have made progress in examining mother - child attachment, much work needs to be done with respect to studying attachment in the microsystem of family relationships (Bronfenbrenner, 1979).

The evidence reveals that babies clearly can and do form more than one attachment relationship.46 They can, for example, be attached securely to mother, father, and regular caregiver.

To do so, this study integrated principles from the integrative model of risk from depressed mother to offspring, attachment theory, and the social skills deficit theory of depressioTo do so, this study integrated principles from the integrative model of risk from depressed mother to offspring, attachment theory, and the social skills deficit theory of depressioto offspring, attachment theory, and the social skills deficit theory of depression.