Attachment Parenting is a very Broad term. For simplicity's sake,
I will begin with the FACTS and bare bones as to how Attachment
Parenting started.
The original concept of Attachment Parenting was formally introduced in 1958 by John Bowlby in a publication of two papers "the Nature of the Child's Tie to his Mother", in which the concepts of "attachment" were introduced. This was the Attachment Theory and not yet coined Attachment Parenting.
For details of Bowlbys Attachment Theory visit: Wikipedia.com Attachment theory
More information on the works of John Bowlby himself: Wikipedia.com and search "John Bowlby" (sorry not allowed many links).
John Bowlby devoted extensive research to the concept of attachment, describing it as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings". Bowlby discussed that early experiences in childhood have an important influence on development and behavior later in life. Early attachment styles are established in childhood through the infant/caregiver relationship.
Bowlby believed that there are four distinguishing characteristics of attachment:
1. Proximity Maintenance - The desire to be near the people we are attached to.
2. Safe Haven - Returning to the attachment figure for comfort and safety in the face of a fear or threat.
3. Secure Base - The attachment figure acts as a base of security from which the child can explore the surrounding environment.
4. Separation Distress - Anxiety that occurs in the absence of the attachment figure.
Alongside Bowlby was Mary Ainsworth who did her own Attachment Theory work and greatly contributed to Bowlby's work.
Around the same time Harry Harlow did research and scientific study on infant rhesus monkeys. Below is an excerpt that explains his work far better than I can:
The Science of Love
How did Harlow go about constructing his science of love? He separated infant monkeys from their mothers a few hours after birth, then arranged for the young animals to be "raised" by two kinds of surrogate monkey mother machines, both equipped to dispense milk. One mother was made out of bare wire mesh. The other was a wire mother covered with soft terry cloth. Harlow's first observation was that monkeys who had a choice of mothers spent far more time clinging to the terry cloth surrogates, even when their physical nourishment came from bottles mounted on the bare wire mothers. This suggested that infant love was no simple response to the satisfaction of physiological needs. Attachment was not primarily about hunger or thirst. It could not be reduced to nursing.
Then Harlow modified his experiment and made a second important observation. When he separated the infants into two groups and gave them no choice between the two types of mothers, all the monkeys drank equal amounts and grew physically at the same rate. But the similarities ended there. Monkeys who had soft, tactile contact with their terry cloth mothers behaved quite differently than monkeys whose mothers were made out of cold, hard wire. Harlow hypothesized that members of the first group benefited from a psychological resource-emotional attachment-unavailable to members of the second. By providing reassurance and security to infants, cuddling kept normal development on track.
What exactly did Harlow see that convinced him emotional attachment made a decisive developmental difference? When the experimental subjects were frightened by strange, loud objects, such as teddy bears beating drums, monkeys raised by terry cloth surrogates made bodily contact with their mothers, rubbed against them, and eventually calmed down. Harlow theorized that they used their mothers as a "psychological base of operations," allowing them to remain playful and inquisitive after the initial fright had subsided. In contrast, monkeys raised by wire mesh surrogates did not retreat to their mothers when scared. Instead, they threw themselves on the floor, clutched themselves, rocked back and forth, and screamed in terror. These activities closely resembled the behaviors of autistic and deprived children frequently observed in institutions as well as the pathological behavior of adults confined to mental institutions, Harlow noted. The awesome power of attachment and loss over mental health and illness could hardly have been performed more dramatically.
Though Harry didn't coin any terms, he contributed significantly to the Attachment Theorem.
This is Part 1 of The Origins of Attachment Parenting REVEALED!
Stay tuned for Part Two and discover who really started Attachment Parenting...
Warmly,
Ashley Ryan
The original concept of Attachment Parenting was formally introduced in 1958 by John Bowlby in a publication of two papers "the Nature of the Child's Tie to his Mother", in which the concepts of "attachment" were introduced. This was the Attachment Theory and not yet coined Attachment Parenting.
For details of Bowlbys Attachment Theory visit: Wikipedia.com Attachment theory
More information on the works of John Bowlby himself: Wikipedia.com and search "John Bowlby" (sorry not allowed many links).
John Bowlby devoted extensive research to the concept of attachment, describing it as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings". Bowlby discussed that early experiences in childhood have an important influence on development and behavior later in life. Early attachment styles are established in childhood through the infant/caregiver relationship.
Bowlby believed that there are four distinguishing characteristics of attachment:
1. Proximity Maintenance - The desire to be near the people we are attached to.
2. Safe Haven - Returning to the attachment figure for comfort and safety in the face of a fear or threat.
3. Secure Base - The attachment figure acts as a base of security from which the child can explore the surrounding environment.
4. Separation Distress - Anxiety that occurs in the absence of the attachment figure.
Alongside Bowlby was Mary Ainsworth who did her own Attachment Theory work and greatly contributed to Bowlby's work.
Around the same time Harry Harlow did research and scientific study on infant rhesus monkeys. Below is an excerpt that explains his work far better than I can:
The Science of Love
How did Harlow go about constructing his science of love? He separated infant monkeys from their mothers a few hours after birth, then arranged for the young animals to be "raised" by two kinds of surrogate monkey mother machines, both equipped to dispense milk. One mother was made out of bare wire mesh. The other was a wire mother covered with soft terry cloth. Harlow's first observation was that monkeys who had a choice of mothers spent far more time clinging to the terry cloth surrogates, even when their physical nourishment came from bottles mounted on the bare wire mothers. This suggested that infant love was no simple response to the satisfaction of physiological needs. Attachment was not primarily about hunger or thirst. It could not be reduced to nursing.
Then Harlow modified his experiment and made a second important observation. When he separated the infants into two groups and gave them no choice between the two types of mothers, all the monkeys drank equal amounts and grew physically at the same rate. But the similarities ended there. Monkeys who had soft, tactile contact with their terry cloth mothers behaved quite differently than monkeys whose mothers were made out of cold, hard wire. Harlow hypothesized that members of the first group benefited from a psychological resource-emotional attachment-unavailable to members of the second. By providing reassurance and security to infants, cuddling kept normal development on track.
What exactly did Harlow see that convinced him emotional attachment made a decisive developmental difference? When the experimental subjects were frightened by strange, loud objects, such as teddy bears beating drums, monkeys raised by terry cloth surrogates made bodily contact with their mothers, rubbed against them, and eventually calmed down. Harlow theorized that they used their mothers as a "psychological base of operations," allowing them to remain playful and inquisitive after the initial fright had subsided. In contrast, monkeys raised by wire mesh surrogates did not retreat to their mothers when scared. Instead, they threw themselves on the floor, clutched themselves, rocked back and forth, and screamed in terror. These activities closely resembled the behaviors of autistic and deprived children frequently observed in institutions as well as the pathological behavior of adults confined to mental institutions, Harlow noted. The awesome power of attachment and loss over mental health and illness could hardly have been performed more dramatically.
Though Harry didn't coin any terms, he contributed significantly to the Attachment Theorem.
This is Part 1 of The Origins of Attachment Parenting REVEALED!
Stay tuned for Part Two and discover who really started Attachment Parenting...
Warmly,
Ashley Ryan
Ashley Ryan - Ashley is an author, parent leader and parenting coach specializing in positive and attachment style parenting.
To Learn:
• The Step by Step Formula for Eliminating your Child's Behavioral Problems Permanently
• The Most Powerful Secret You Need to Know to Raise a Healthy Child (Learn this and you will never need to use punishment again)
• One Highly Destructive Approach to Discipline that Almost Every Parent uses (And how you can avoid it)
• And, The Virtually Unknown way to get Your Child to Cooperate (Without having to ask)
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To Learn:
• The Step by Step Formula for Eliminating your Child's Behavioral Problems Permanently
• The Most Powerful Secret You Need to Know to Raise a Healthy Child (Learn this and you will never need to use punishment again)
• One Highly Destructive Approach to Discipline that Almost Every Parent uses (And how you can avoid it)
• And, The Virtually Unknown way to get Your Child to Cooperate (Without having to ask)
Visit: http://www.happychildguide.com or email Ashley at: Ashley@happychildguide.com
You Can Also Claim Your FREE Report: "One Amazingly Powerful Technique that Reduces Whining by 80% (And it also eliminates other annoying behaviors in the process)"
