Sentences with phrase «encourage social bonding»

We recommend canned food on a limited basis to only be used as a treat to encourage social bonding between you and your cat, however the caloric content of canned food can cause rapid weight gain if your cat is not highly active, so keep it limited.

Evidence suggests that the really special thing that music does for us is encourage social bonding between whole groups of people playing and dancing together».

Music also made the activities more pleasurable (Crowe, 2004), capitalizing on the children's predisposition to music (Tafuri, 2008), and encouraging social bonds and mother - child connection (Crowe, 2004).

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Classes focus on activities developed to increase a baby's brain growth and development, improve sensory stimulation, help children feel comfortable in social situations, and encourage growth and bonding between parent and child.

- Relief from colic, wind, constipation and teething pain - Develops body awareness and coordination - Helps develop trust and build a sense of security - Increases relaxation and encourages deep sleep - Helps tone floppy muscles - Strengthens bonding and communication - Reduces crying and emotional distress - Boosts circulation and regulates temperature - Stimulates baby's digestion, nervous and lymphatic systems - Helps baby to feel loved, valued and respected - Increases recognition of facial and emotional expressions which supports development of social skills - Helps with language, memory and concentration

Oxytocin is known as the «love hormone» because it encourages trust, cooperation and social bonding.

Previous research indicates oxytocin — a hormone that promotes social and maternal bonding — acts in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of the prairie vole brain to encourage consoling behavior.

In addition to providing shelter and rehabilitation to these animals in need, spca cincinnati collaborates with government, law enforcement, and social service organizations in its ongoing effort to encourage humane principles and foster the human - animal bond.

A sponsor's brand benefits by piggybacking on the social benefit of WoofTrax's donations to local rescues and shelters, and encouraging dogs and their humans to bond through exercise.

Cumulatively, research findings suggest that parent - child music programs can: 1) encourage engagement and bonding (Edwards, 2011; Lyons, 2000; Nicholson, Berthelsen, Abad, Williams, & Bradley, 2008; Oldfield, Adams, & Bunce, 2003; Oldfield & Bunce, 2001); 2) model parenting skills through children's music and movement activities (Burrell, 2011; Creighton, 2011; Kelly, 2011); 3) nurture parent - child interactions (Edwards, 2011; McDonald et al., 2009); 4) stimulate child developmental and social skills (Kelly, 2011; Nicholson, Berthelsen, Abad, Williams, & Bradley, 2008); and 5) support maternal wellbeing (Gudmundsdottir & Gudmundsdottir, 2010).

It is designed as a preventive intervention program to strengthen the bond between parent and child and to stimulate early language, cognitive, and social development via positive language input, use of language and activities to encourage children's problem solving skills, and positive discipline strategies.

It has been found that books effectively increase maternal knowledge of anticipatory guidance material and encourage social and emotional bonding between parents and babies.

For French teens, peer involvement encourages and moral values undermine cheating; for Chinese adolescents, all four social bonds contribute to cheating, similar to the whole sample.