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Nurturings Tip: How to Reconnect After the Work Day Reconnecting after being apart, whether for an hour or during the workday, is essential for families.	How We Can Make Sense of Child Behavior: An interview with Barbara Probst We want to celebrate our child's unique traits, but sometimes their differences can be worrying.
An Ever-Changing Village: Why Parent Support is Crucial for Military Families One of the many reasons parents find their way to Nurturings is that they're seeking a community and Nurturings can connect them to local parenting groups.	Are You A "Problem Parent"? Happy, confident, caring children grow up in an atmosphere of flexibility and trust, supported by respectful and realistic parents who do not see challenging behaviors as indications that there is a problem with their children.
Falling in Love with Our Children is Scary: 3 Tips to Make It Easier Love opens us up, wide open: no armor, no defenses. We're naked and vulnerable when we're in love. Love is powerful. It's not just cupids and chocolates and diamonds.	2022 November - December Training For The East Asia, Oceania And Americas Time Zones
Dissociation in Infants and Young Children: A Summary of the Research on its Causes and Results "Throughout the United States, family courts are not provided accurate, relevant information about the neurological, psychological and social developmental needs of children from birth to seven years of age.	Book Resources for AP Families ... read more
Dr. Peter Haiman - Family Court Expert Witness, Parenting Professional	The Hows and Whys of Attachment Parenting "This classic book is a wonderful parental companion that can be read a few pages at a time. Inspirational stories and research nurture the parent into an empathic embrace of her child.

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When a Parent Goes to War: Effects of Parental Deployment on Very Young Children and Implications for Intervention

Paris, R., DeVoe, E. R., Ross, A. M., & Acker, M. L. (2010). When a parent goes to war: Effects of parental deployment on very young children and implications for intervention. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(4), 610-618.

Post-deployment programs that address parenting would be helpful, especially for families with children from birth through age 5, as this age group is particularly vulnerable to changes in attachment patterns.

Early Mother-Child Separation, Parenting, and Child Well-Being in Early Head Start Families

Howard, K., Martin, A., Berlin, L. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2011). Early mother-child separation, parenting, and child well-being in Early Head Start families.Attachment & Human Development,13(1), 5-26.

While it is well known that traumatic or extended separations negatively impact child development, even week-long separations that occur within the first two years of life have lasting consequences on child behavior.