Attached and Emotional Development
By: Kayla Foerster, Sam Diaz, and Sam Blodgett
Building Attachment Through Touch
- Babies need to be held and cuddled
- Touch helps build trust and affection
- Touch is a primary sense
- Touch is how babies experience and respond to the environment
- It help the baby learn that the parent will be there for them
Building Attachment Through Consistent Care
- Builds trust when care giver takes care of their needs
- The world is a strange place for newborns
- If the parents meets the baby's needs, it teaches them the world is a safe, comfortable place
- Care givers must be consistent, if not baby will have a hard time trusting
Building Attachment Through Communication
- It's very important
- responds to face expressions and eye contact
- responds to sounds, hugs, kisses, and later responds to crawling and walking
Failure to Thrive :[
Failure to Thrive: Condition in which babies do not grow or develop properly.
- cries weaken
- smiles fade
- withdrawn
- As an adult they will be unable to develop caring relationships
- Children who live in poverty are most likely to thrive
Attachment Through Touch
Attachment through Constant Care
Failure to Thrive
Failure To Thrive - Parenting 2010