Linking Research to Life: Attachment and Childcare Order 955482
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Linking Research to Life: Attachment and Childcare Order 955482
Mother-Child Attachment
Bonding of a child with their mother is not affected by the amount of time a child stays away from their mother. Leaving babies with caregivers is a concern for every mother. However, Lucinda should not be much worried about going back to work and putting her daughter in daycare. Regardless of high-quality child care, type of care offered in the care or even the time the child spends in care, her attachment with her mother still remains intact.
According to the research, there are two major factors that lead to an insecure mother-child attachment. First, if mothers become reluctant in responding to slight changes, signals or influences in babies, such ignorant behavior of a parent leads to insecure attachment with their baby. Secondly, the type of child care is also a factor to consider. If a mother puts her baby in a low-quality child care, or even crowded care, affects the bonding she has with her child (Sagi et al., 2002). For instance, if a childcare has illiterate caregivers, the baby will not be exposed to stimulating activities and will remain dump to her mother. Also, arrogant caregivers instill fear to babies thus the baby ends up fearing her own mother.
Highly standardized child care is one where degree of excellency is high. Comparatively, it should have small number of children per caregiver. For example, each caregiver should have like three babies to nurture. Also, high quality child care should have well trained and responsible caregivers. The caregivers should be fast to notice and respond to child’s signals or even identify abnormal changes in a child. Further, caregivers should come up with appropriate baby activities that stimulate the children. Lastly, the caregivers should hold baby’s parents in high regards, approach them with respectful manner and liaise.
Reference
Sagi, A., Koren‐Karie, N., Gini, M., Ziv, Y., & Joels, T. (2002). Shedding further light on the effects of various types and quality of early child care on infant–mother attachment relationship: The Haifa study of early child care. Child development, 73(4), 1166-1186.