But as the kiddos begin to learn more about mama as a person (and not just as a baby-doting slave), the crying, skirt-pulling, separation-anxiety-every-time-Mom-leaves-the-room behavior begins to lessen.
Provide Consistent and Loving Care
Babies and young children have an intense need for the physical presence of a consistent, loving, responsive caregiver: ideally a parent. If it becomes necessary, choose an alternate caregiver who has formed a bond with the child and who cares for him in a way that strengthens the attachment relationship. Keep schedules flexible, and minimize stress and fear during short separations.
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These two great trends — greater praise and greater honing — combine in intense ways. Children are bathed in love, but it is often directional love. Parents shower their kids with affection, but it is meritocratic affection. |
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I suspect that for nearly all women, soon after our first-born makes the exit out of our bodies and into the world, a "guilt cyst" begins to grow inside us -- metaphorically speaking, that is. |
Many military families face long separations as family members must be away for long-term training or deployments. |
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What do Papua New Guinea, Oman and the United States of America have in common? They are the only 3 countries in the world with no paid maternity leave law. |
I can't count the number of times that someone has told me that I need to get out of the house without my son. |
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One day, when my son was a baby, I took him to the grocery store. He started to cry, and as I lifted him out of his car seat, a strange woman walked by. |
For most of my life, I struggled with the sensation that there was a hole in my life, a loss of something vital. It felt as if there was a fuzzy-edged void somewhere inside, floating in my chest. |
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And according to a recent study by Johns Hopkins University and published in the December 2014 edition of the journal Health Affairs, the choices of parents are affecting nearly half of all children’s lives — and not in a good way. |
This post was originally published on Aug. 11, 2010, and centers on an issue that many of us know all to well -- that of separation anxiety and Attachment Parenting. |
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