Eventually,
early caregivers found each other and started working together.
Not exact matches
Attachment parenting is merely a term coined much later to tie these natural parenting choices and others in with the modern research of psychologists like John Bowlby who
found that the healthiest emotional and relational adults tended to have strong
early attachments with a parent or primary
caregiver.
I know that some that even say they will do those things don't always actually follow through I've heard some unpleasant stories of showing up
early to
find their child wandering aimlessly, crying for attention from the
caregiver that assured the parent that they would care for their child in an AP manner.
Examples of programs in Canada and the United Sates include Parent as Teachers, Nurse Family Partnerships,
Early Head Start, and Healthy Steps, whereas Educate Your Child, 1 The Roving
Caregivers, 2 and Madres Guías3 are examples of programs
found in Latin America and in the Caribbean.
Among the unexplored research
findings were the discovery that
early attachment status can change, often as a result of negative life events; that maternal deprivation and other
early losses are recoverable; and that infants do not require one primary
caregiver to thrive.
The researchers hope their
findings help parents,
caregivers and
early childhood educators develop strategies for teaching young children.
«These
findings suggest that our
early social lives may have a small protective influence on our physical health in adulthood, and it's not just our
caregivers or financial circumstances, but also our friends who may be health protective,» says psychological scientist Jenny Cundiff of Texas Tech University.
«By simply teaching
caregivers age - appropriate activities to foster child development, we
found that
early intervention can help children from low - resource families catch up with their peers from high - resource families,» said Carla Bann, Ph.D., statistics and psychometrics fellow at RTI and lead author of the study.
This study is the first to show longitudinally that infants and toddlers with these self - regulation difficulties may be placed in front of media by their
caregivers more often in
early childhood, a time when the detrimental sequelae of excessive media exposure are more pronounced.1 We
found that infants with self - regulation problems watched 0.15 hour per day (roughly 9 minutes) more media at age 2.
These
findings are also in line with other studies that have shown that chronic
caregiver stress in the postpartum and
early childhood period has been associated with persistent wheeze in
early childhood4 as well as factors that may initiate or potentiate inflammation in the lung (eg, IgE expression, enhanced nonspecific and allergen - specific lymphocyte proliferation, differential cytokine expression).5, 7 Both persistent wheeze and atopy have been linked to reduced lung function in childhood.49 This cumulative stress model is particularly relevant given that maternal IPV may become a more direct stressor for toddlers who are witnessing violence against their mothers.50
Depression and attachment insecurity of the primary
caregiver and more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents, high person - to - room ratio,
early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were
found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents, low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.
Together, these
findings suggest that the absence of a
caregiver might lead to chronic elevations in activity of the HPA axis and ANS in
early childhood, which may ultimately lead to reduced responsiveness of these systems to the environment later in life.
Examples of programs in Canada and the United Sates include Parent as Teachers, Nurse Family Partnerships,
Early Head Start, and Healthy Steps, whereas Educate Your Child, 1 The Roving
Caregivers, 2 and Madres Guías3 are examples of programs
found in Latin America and in the Caribbean.
The Family Check - Up With High - Risk Indigent Families: Preventing Problem Behavior by Increasing Parents» Positive Behavior Support in
Early Childhood (PDF - 400 KB) Dishion, Shaw, Connell, Gardner, Weaver, & Wilson (2008) Child Development, 79 (5)
Finds that families who were offered the Family Check - Up and linked to parenting support services experienced fewer child behavior problems and improved
caregiver support for positive behavior.
In addition, the research on institutionalized children indicates that institutionalization and other adverse
early experiences (for example, having multiple
caregivers and being held and stimulated less) may affect brain structure and activity.23
Findings from these studies suggest that the timing and duration of institutionalization are important.
CONNECT can directly link parents to their local
Early Intervention program if parents /
caregivers have a developmental concern and CONNECT can help families
find local child care, Head Start or PreK programs for their young children.
Attachment theory is
founded on the idea that an infant's
early relationship with their
caregiver is crucial for social and emotional development.
It has also been
found consistently throughout the resilience research that growing up with an
early established and secure attachment to the
caregiver is important for the development of a capacity to trust, and for the stimulation of emotional regulation and mentalising capacities (e.g. self - reflection)[35, 38].
van IJzendoorn provides a straightforward, authoritative overview of attachment theory and a description of patterns of attachment relationships.3 His description of research
findings focuses on the question of whether variation in attachment is a function of
early social experience with the
caregiver or genetic factors, including temperament.