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Connecting With Your Child: Attachment, Play and Repair
How connection works with babies and young kids: secure attachment, skin-to-skin, one-on-one play and how to repair after you yell or snap.
Newborn 1
Toddler 2
Family 7
- The Most Important Thing: Your Time and Attention No guide matters as much as the time you spend with your baby. What that looks like, and what it doesn't.
- Skin-to-Skin Time: Why It Matters for Every Parent Why skin-to-skin time helps babies and parents, why dads should do it too, and how to do it safely.
- Secure Attachment and Connection Before Correction Secure attachment and connection before correction: what it means day to day, and how rupture and repair build trust with your child.
- Repair After Rupture: What to Say After You Yell or Snap Repairing after you yell or snap, and why it matters, from Dr. Becky Kennedy and Dr. Aliza Pressman.
- Filling the Connection Tank: Play, Stories and Preparation Phone-free play, telling the story and preparing for hard things, from Dr. Becky Kennedy.
- The Five Principles: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules and Repair Relationship, reflection, regulation, rules and repair, from Dr. Aliza Pressman.
- Rules and Reflection: Warmth and Structure Together Warmth and structure together, and pausing before reacting, from Dr. Aliza Pressman.
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