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Your Child’s Attachment Development

mother with son playingThe quality of your child’s attachment to you depends very much on your ability to consistently engage in several key behaviors with him or her. These include:

  • your willingness to make yourself physically available to your child and to focus on him or her when you’re together
  • your willingness to build new knowledge that might help you better interact with your child
  • increasing your ability to read your child’s cues for help/assistance and to respond effectively to these
  • increasing your ability to quickly and consistently respond to the needs of your child
  • increasing your ability to respond to your child’s needs warmly and in ways that are appropriate and sensitive to their wants and needs
  • improving your ability to play with your child in ways that support his or her interests rather than only your own preferences
  • increasing your awareness of the signals your child sends when he or she is feeling overstimulated

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