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Bonding with Babies
July 19, 2013
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
-Rebecca H. Davis
-Rebecca H. Davis
"Babies flourish with loving caregivers. So the first and foremost emotional neediness of a baby is for YOU to become intimately engaged with the baby. Sure, you will hold and cuddle. Sure, you will respond to infant distress. But the essence of quality infant caregiving lies in the emotional bond you forge with each infant.
"Unlike adults, babies happily cope if they have more than one love partner in the duet of caring! Not only parents and grandparents, but child care personnel can serve as intimate partners in babies' lives. Finding your way to create a love affair with each infant will take emotional skillfulness and a willingness to become a pleasuring and pleasured partner."
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Displaying 1 CommentSpirit Child Yoga and ECE
Aurora, ON, Canada
Hurrah! I am going to share this with the ECE college students in my Infant and Toddler class immediately! When visiting them in their placements, I still hear some trained RECEs modelling such horrid phrases as, "Put you tears away," to tiny people away from their parents for 7 to 11 a day. "They just have to learn that we can't pick them up all the time." Despite all that they supposedly learned about the vulnerability of infants and toddlers. Despite the fact that when I say would you want your own child treated like that, they say, "No!" Thankfully, this week I also met an amazing toddler teacher who said that forging an intimate bond with each new child is the most important thing she does and that hearing the beastly, "Put your tears away," makes her skin crawl too.
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