"Human beings are wired to resist being told what to do or bossed around outside of the context of attachment. This is actually a very good thing.
"Human beings are wired to resist being told what to do or bossed around outside of the context of attachment. This is actually a very good thing. |
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“I think this is quite a wake-up call,” says Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a professor of psychology and education at the University of Southern California (who was not affiliated with the new study). |
"The emotionally healthy child is learning how to make choices that are good for him or her and good for others, which I call smart choices. |
Art’tachment, an app for parents, "is designed to enable you to better meet your child’s need for connectedness and stimulation." It includes activities to do together and scientific insights to better understand your child. |
"According to Damour, the most powerful force for good in a teenager’s life is a “caring, working relationship with at least one loving adult.” Within that context, adults can offer teenagers empathy, grounded perspective and a vote of confidence as |
"A new study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that adults who have a hard time finding their sense of purpose in life possibly had more conflict with their mothers in their early elementary school years.
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"It often seems like society gives us two options: we either raise them to be tough and ‘take no prisoners’ or to constantly ‘turn the other cheek’ and let them become the bullied of every situation.
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From the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University Dr. |
“We are not the survival of the fittest, we are the survival of the nurtured.” - Louis Cozolino |
Insecure attachment with low maternal sensitivity at ages 2 and 3 years was associated with teenage obesity. |