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How To Care For Your Baby
By Obinna Heche
Nov 26, 2008
Parenting as a matter of fact, is a style of caring for your infant that brings out the best in the baby and the best in the parents. You will definitely learn that the key to putting balance in your parenting is being appropriately responsive to your baby. Knowing when to say Yes and when to say No and having the wisdom to say it when you want to. Parenting is joyful, important, challenging and deeply a satisfying work that is worthy of everyones best efforts.
It is a learned art and our most important teachers are our own parents, our family and our children all put together. Creative parenting is often the easiest on our purse. For attachment parenting,
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One of the many payoffs you will soon dicover of is mutual giving. That is the more you give to your baby, the more your baby gives back to you. The hardest part of parenting is the feeling. You just do not know what your baby wants. Attachment parenting is the best way to get connected between you and your baby.
Patience and parenting goes together. Needless to say that for a good nights sleep, you need to teach your child to fall asleep on his or her own. Many advice abounds when it comes to parenting but caregivers find that it only seems to work for everyone elses kids not theirs. Sleep problems are one of the mst common problem in parenting. Child massage, reading books and listening to music are the most commonly recommended ideas for your childs sleep time and they work.
Nevertheless, bed time routine is considered a nightmare for all baby sleep problems. Frustrated parents like often find the experts insistence that once a bedtime routine is in place, the baby will respond consistently to it, to be an insult added to injury. Indeed, there are no books, advisors or in laws around to shower you with child tending advice. The knowledge of attachment parenting would come naturally to you as they have to other cultures who have centuries more child rearing experience and tradition than all of us
With research, it has become apparent that there is a correspondence between mothers and children on the basis that attachment. Attachment depends on the reaction from mothers to her child’s emotional cues. (Feldman, 2012, Chapter
The following paper is given to discuss the attachment styles from the experts by how it was developed, while making note off the theorist whom played a part in developing the theory. This paper will also be discussing the impact the of attachment styles; secure, preoccupied, dismissive, and fearful-avoidant. There will be personal experiences given throughout the paper to further the illustrate the attachment theory. Finally, there will be a contrast on the perspective of the opposing sides when it comes to the durability of the styles. Attachment theory is an evolutionary, ethological, and psychological theory which gives individuals the explanatory and descriptive framework of understanding the interpersonal relationship between individuals in society.
It is unsafe to let a child go to sleep sucking on a bottle and cuddling a teddy. The reason this is not ok to give a bottle before bed time is because it can cause serious tooth decay. Leaving a soft toy in the cot for children under the age of two years is unsafe as it can increase the chance of suffocation. (Peters, 2010) 2. Identify three sleep practices in the scenario that would contravene a service’s safe sleep policy or be impossible to implement in an early childhood setting.
The father said, “’That’s the first thing you give up when you decide to have children, or at least I think it’s supposed to be. You give up a part of yourself that says I want things my way. When you have kids, it starts being about them’” (Quayle and Medved 108). Both of these stories involve caring for family.
This supports effective attachment by providing consistent individual care, children show their response to this by coming to us when they are hurt sad or just need a cuddle, supporting the child to trust you allows you to understand and meet their needs. Furthermore, we impact create routines that help children to trust adults, they feel more settled and freer to play, explore and learn. This is especially important to children who struggle to form healthy attachments at home, when they come to the nursery we provide them with this, we are always involved and meet their physical and emotional needs. The impact this has on a child’s attachment is extremely important it teaches them that they will always be supported by us. We also create a ‘Triangle of trust’ between child and their family learning
Attachment theory states that either secure or insecure bonds may form between infant and mother in the first several months of the infant’s life for the purposes of safety and security. The bond formed between infant and mother influences the quality of the relationships a child has throughout his or her life. One major reasoning of the attachment theory is that the parents are a sanctuary of safety throughout all of early childhood. Insecure attachments promote feelings of threat, rejection, and personal unworthiness. This can also be the explanation for the dream children stashing food away because of the possible threat that there,” will come a time when they will not be fed” (Smith 99).Unhealthy attachments not only lead to poor caregiver-child relationships, but can also cause a dysfunctional self-development, defective relationships, substance abuse problems, and educational difficulties.
Humans are made to connect to one another. Babies are born with the innate capacity to form attachments, but this nature can only develop with a devoted and responsive caregiver. The formation of attachment occurs in supportive and shared relationship the reciprocity of thoughts and feelings. Babies with unresponsive caregivers are deprived of the emotional and social signals of attachment. As they grow older, they have more cognitive, social, and behavioral difficulties opposed to those whose caregivers are receptive of their needs.
Co-sleeping is a hotly debated topic between mothers and scholars alike. Should children and infants sleep with their parents or should they sleep in their own space? Many people believe that co-sleeping is vastly superior and has numerous benefits, short-term and long-term, while others believe that co-sleeping is dangerous. A large divide between those who are for co-sleeping and those who are against it comes from cultural differences in the Western world and everywhere else. I will be arguing that co-sleeping is natural and that parents should be encouraged to co-sleep with their children by pediatricians and parent educators.
Since your baby is awake for a longer time during the day and is becoming awake of the surroundings, it is a great time to take your child out and stimulate him/her. #2. This is the time to start play activities with your child. It is also a good idea to start morning routine and bedtime activities, which work as cues for little ones. For example, a bedtime story can be a cue that it’s time to go to bed.
Children who were just settling in the setting found it very difficult to sleep, so I comforted and reassured those children. For the older children I would usually create a peaceful mood by rubbing their backs and reading a story to them
Overview of Attachment Theory Attachment theory tries to describe the evolution of personality and behaviour in relationships and it gives a reason for the difference in a person’s emotional and relationship attitudes. In the beginning, it looked at the mechanics of relationships between children and their parents but it has since been expanded to cover the entire life of the human being (Howe, 2000). Attachment theory includes insights learned from evolutionary theory, ethology, systems theory and developmental psychology (Howe, 2001).
Along with all these incredible benefits, I believe the best is intimate parent-infant bonding and attachment
It is based on the idea that the early relationship that develops between the infant and caregiver provides the foundation for later development. Bowlby’s
Attachment in early life is a fundamental aspect of child development and the establishment of intimate and reciprocal relationships with caregivers. Shaffer & Kipp (2007) define attachment as ‘a close emotional relationship between two persons, characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity’. Contrary to the original view of infant attachment as a ‘secondary drive’ of the dependency on caregivers for physiological needs, such as hunger; Bowlby (1969, 1973) proposed that all infants are born with an innate bias to form an attachment to a primary attachment figure to whom they can seek comfort, or a ‘secure base’ during stressful circumstances. It is proposed by Ainsworth (1967) that parental sensitivity is crucial to shaping the security and development of the initial infant-parent attachment relationship, however the phenomenon of attachment requires both infants and caregivers to contribute in the formation of the attachment bond. Ultimately, the quality of attachment in early life shapes both the social and emotional
One of the most important factors that affect a child 's development is the relationship and attachment of the child with their primary caregiver. John Bowlby studied the development of the child; he was interested in how childhood relationships affected kids as they grew older and became adults. He was also concerned with the relationship of the child and primary caregiver and how they interacted, and the effect this had on later life. Bowlby 's theory established that children’s earliest relationships shaped their later development and characterized their human life, "from the cradle to the grave"(Bowlby, 1998). The attachment style that an infant develops with their parent later reflects on their overall person.