From my first post from this week I found proximal and
distal parenting very interesting which impacts a child as they grow up. Ways
that the child could be influenced or impacted is by level of attachment. The
video we watched this past week had a lot of good information about how the
child develops overtime and connecting things which leads to attachment. One
example that sticks out is the study done by Steven Suomi on shy monkey’s. What
he had found is that shyness is developed in the first few weeks after one is
born. A way that he observed the action is when one monkey would leave the
mothers side and others would not leave her side until they were older or more
comfortable with the environment. With that being said and pointed out within
his study it can lead to different levels of attachment that an infant has. The
four levels of attachment are insecure attachment, secure, insecure-resistant/ambivalent,
and disorganized. As the child grows and develops the amount of interaction
with the caregiver or parent matters because of the level of attachment that
would be developed. One example is when a parent/ caregiver gives lots of
attention and holds the child with out letting them explore new things it could
develop fear or anxiety when interacting with other children. Once the child
develops a fear or anxiety disorganized or insecure-resistant/ ambivalent attachment
could develop making them upset at others when the mother/ caregiver is out of
sight. To prevent a child from developing fear or clinging behavior caregivers
should give the child attention but also separate themselves from them so they
can explore and socially interact on there own.
I found an article that is very interesting; which talks about attachment and separation anxiety.
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