"Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium at the University of Notre Dame....
"This new research links certain early, nurturing parenting practices—the kind common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies—to specific, healthy emotional outcomes in adulthood, and has many experts rethinking some of our modern, cultural child-rearing "norms."...
"Studies show that responding to a baby's needs (not letting a baby "cry it out") has been shown to influence the development of conscience; positive touch affects stress reactivity, impulse control and empathy; free play in nature influences social capacities and aggression; and a set of supportive caregivers (beyond the mother alone) predicts IQ and ego resilience as well as empathy....
"The United States has been on a downward trajectory on all of these care characteristics, according to Narvaez...."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-modern-parenting-hinder-brain.html
See also:
There's a great video from ACEsConnection member Dr. Gabor Mate on this subject:
Dr. Gabor Mate: Importance of Attachment (14 mins)
http://acesconnection.com/video/dr-gabor-mate-importance-of-attachment
More from Dr. Mate:
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