Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships
An insightful and practical book exploring how young children build the foundations for future relationships

Safety, feeling at home, trust, self-confidence, creativity, and comfort in exploring the world, are things all children should have.

From an early age, children form attachments that become the foundation of their future relationships. Strong bonds with their world (parents, educators, plants and animals) can only begin with a healthy attachment to themselves.

With practical tips and real-life examples from an experienced educator, this insightful book explores how the process of healthy attachment develops in young children (until 6 years old), what conditions are needed for becoming well bonded and how caregivers and educators can help in this important process.

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Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships
An insightful and practical book exploring how young children build the foundations for future relationships

Safety, feeling at home, trust, self-confidence, creativity, and comfort in exploring the world, are things all children should have.

From an early age, children form attachments that become the foundation of their future relationships. Strong bonds with their world (parents, educators, plants and animals) can only begin with a healthy attachment to themselves.

With practical tips and real-life examples from an experienced educator, this insightful book explores how the process of healthy attachment develops in young children (until 6 years old), what conditions are needed for becoming well bonded and how caregivers and educators can help in this important process.

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Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships

Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships

Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships
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Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships

Overview

An insightful and practical book exploring how young children build the foundations for future relationships

Safety, feeling at home, trust, self-confidence, creativity, and comfort in exploring the world, are things all children should have.

From an early age, children form attachments that become the foundation of their future relationships. Strong bonds with their world (parents, educators, plants and animals) can only begin with a healthy attachment to themselves.

With practical tips and real-life examples from an experienced educator, this insightful book explores how the process of healthy attachment develops in young children (until 6 years old), what conditions are needed for becoming well bonded and how caregivers and educators can help in this important process.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782503729
Publisher: Floris Books
Publication date: 06/15/2017
Pages: 120
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lois Eijgenraam was born in 1965 in the Netherlands. She has been a kindergarten teacher for over 30 years and also works as an educational consultant and lecturer.

Barbara Mees is a professional translator living in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Part 1 What is Healthy Attachment? 7

1 Healthy Attachments for Harmonious Living 9

2 A Brief History of Parenting in the Twentieth Century 17

3 The Beginnings of Attachment Theory 23

4 It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child 27

Part 2 Building Blocks in the Attachment Process 33

5 The Attachment Pyramid 35

6 One: Building Basic Security 41

7 Two: Building Trust 55

8 Three: Building Self-Confidence 65

9 Four: Building Independence 75

10 Five: Building Creativity 81

Part 3 Further Advice for Everyday Parenting 85

11 The Inner Working Model: Weaving the Bond 87

12 Educating the Will 91

13 Unhealthy Attachment 103

14 The More Securely Attached the Better 111

References and Further Reading 112

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