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.
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Attached parenting is not about walking on eggshells so as not to upset your kid, but rather it’s about standing confident in the truth that you are your child’s best bet, the one who knows what they need and how to take care of them, and you do so |
"And current research suggests that the attachments formed in the first two years of life have a profound effect on how we behave in a diverse range of human relationships, from love, to work, to politics. |
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Check out the Evolved Nest with Darcia Narvaez podcast.
Dr. Narvaez's long list of credentials and work includes her role as an API Board Member. |
"...affectionate touch has long lasting health effects: (1) Prevents excessive stress (2) Prevents hippocampal dysfunction (control of anxiety) (3) Establishes and maintains social bonding."
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