Parent-Child Attachment is important to the child’s future e

Parent-Child Attachment is important to the child’s future emotional and social development According to Kagan (1978) an attachment is “an intense emotional relationship that is specific to two people that endures over time and in which prolonged separation from the partner is accompanied by stress and sorrow”. But this is only a definition. Our first attachment acts as a protype for all later relationships. Even though Kagan definition applies to any attachment, the crucial first …

…them in related activities in the home and/or community.  Demonstrate an understanding that children are unique in terms of their needs.  Listen more responsively to their children.  Give significance to their children's place in the family by discussing their births and how their names were selected. In general Parents who nurture learn to attend to their children's unique needs by building positive relationships with them, and by sending consistent messages of love and support