this is a new book i own
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt
find review here
exherps from this review
"In Why Love Matters, Gerhardt, a psychotherapist, has bravely gone where most in recent years have feared to tread. She takes the hard language of neuroscience and uses it to prove the soft stuff of attachment theory. Picking up your crying baby or ignoring it may be a matter of parental choice, but the effects will be etched on your baby's brain for years to come. Putting your one-year-old in a nursery or leaving them with a childminder may turn out to be a more momentous decision than you thought.
Drawing on the most recent findings from the field of neurochemistry, Gerhardt makes an impressive case that emotional experiences in infancy and early childhood have a measurable effect on how we develop as human beings. ....."
"Gerhardt is not interested in cognitive skills - how quickly a child learns to read, write, count to 10. She's interested in the connection between the kind of loving we receive in infancy and the kind of people we turn into. Who we are is neither encoded at birth, she argues, nor gradually assembled over the years, but is inscribed into our brains during the first two years of life in direct response to how we are loved and cared for. "
"Good parenting isn't just nice for the baby; it leads to good development of the baby's prefrontal cortex, which in turn enables the growing child to develop self-control and empathy, and to feel connected to others. Interaction, it turns out, is the high road from merely human to fully humane. "
"The policy implications of Gerhardt's book are as important as they are bound to be, for many, unpalatable. It's hard to read this book and feel complacent about the conditions in which many children today are raised. Not enough is being done to help parents prioritise and meet their children's needs in the vital first two years of their lives. Gerhardt touches only briefly on the issue of daycare for very young children but this, too, clearly needs far more attention. The government's unbridled enthusiasm for nursery care means that the most vulnerable children in our society end up with the biggest deficit in terms of the quality of their early interactions - precisely the same children most likely to end up with behavioural, educational and social problems later on. "
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt
find review here
exherps from this review
"In Why Love Matters, Gerhardt, a psychotherapist, has bravely gone where most in recent years have feared to tread. She takes the hard language of neuroscience and uses it to prove the soft stuff of attachment theory. Picking up your crying baby or ignoring it may be a matter of parental choice, but the effects will be etched on your baby's brain for years to come. Putting your one-year-old in a nursery or leaving them with a childminder may turn out to be a more momentous decision than you thought.
Drawing on the most recent findings from the field of neurochemistry, Gerhardt makes an impressive case that emotional experiences in infancy and early childhood have a measurable effect on how we develop as human beings. ....."
"Gerhardt is not interested in cognitive skills - how quickly a child learns to read, write, count to 10. She's interested in the connection between the kind of loving we receive in infancy and the kind of people we turn into. Who we are is neither encoded at birth, she argues, nor gradually assembled over the years, but is inscribed into our brains during the first two years of life in direct response to how we are loved and cared for. "
"Good parenting isn't just nice for the baby; it leads to good development of the baby's prefrontal cortex, which in turn enables the growing child to develop self-control and empathy, and to feel connected to others. Interaction, it turns out, is the high road from merely human to fully humane. "
"The policy implications of Gerhardt's book are as important as they are bound to be, for many, unpalatable. It's hard to read this book and feel complacent about the conditions in which many children today are raised. Not enough is being done to help parents prioritise and meet their children's needs in the vital first two years of their lives. Gerhardt touches only briefly on the issue of daycare for very young children but this, too, clearly needs far more attention. The government's unbridled enthusiasm for nursery care means that the most vulnerable children in our society end up with the biggest deficit in terms of the quality of their early interactions - precisely the same children most likely to end up with behavioural, educational and social problems later on. "
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