It gives parents the freedom and confidence to touch
their infants in a loving way.
Not exact matches
Let's set aside for a moment the issue of single parent households, and just focus on the implication that a
loving dad washing his
infant daughter could be
in any
way inappropriate.
Infants who are neglected or under - stimulated develop
in different
ways from those reared
in loving homes.
CIO can be done with
love and respect, can actually REDUCE crying durations
in infants from all day long from fatigue to a few short minutes before sleeping, and can actually be a
way that caring parents can be shown to be responding to their child who needs to sleep and will not do so properly while being rocked, fed, or constantly handled.
Suzy and her husband (along with their
infant son), packed up their belongings and traveled to Honduras to be missionaries for a few months and along the
way, they fell
in love with the people, the country, and they also saw a need for sustainable jobs and economic opportunity.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works
in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples
in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with
infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for
way too long — static, meticulously framed shots
in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up
in the Sky, shown
in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever
loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Often sleep deprived, parents must still respond to the
infant's demands
in a consistently
loving way, while also attending to the outside pressures of work, household, and other family responsibilities.
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.
Of course a secure parent - child attachment can never be completely fulfilled
in an adult relationship, because adults can not have the «unconditional
love» for each other that a parent must have for a small
infant (such as paying lots of one -
way attention or tolerating lots of temper tantrums).