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Article #289: How to Create an Emotional Bond with Your Child

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Anthony Kane, MD caretakers, who provide for the child's
One of the most powerful tools that physical needs with as little warmth and
parents have for raising their children contact as possible, often raise
is the natural emotional bond that exists children. Also, many of us did not
between them and their child. Children receive enough physical love and warmth
who feel close to their parents will have as children. As a result, it is not
a strong desire to obey them. No child natural to us to cuddle, coo, kiss, and
with this type of connection to his love our children affectionately. In
parents will want to risk hurting that addition, some children naturally need
connection by disobeying them. When such more physical warmth. These
a relationship exists, the mere look of touch-deprived children fill our schools.
dissatisfaction on the face of a parent They are the ones who often look sad and
will usually be enough to curb depressed, suffering from not getting
inappropriate behavior. This bond is so their physical needs for contact.
strong and so potent that it lasts even The United States is one of the richest
through adolescence when most of the countries in the history of the world.
disciplinary tools at our disposal are Yet, our children in general are touch
ineffective. Often, it is the only tool starved. We are busy with our lives and
we have in guiding our teenage children. our careers. We often raise our children
Parents who do not have such a connection in broken homes. We as parents are
with their children have lost a vital suffering under the burden of so much
resource necessary for successful physical and emotional stress, that we
parenting. are often just glad to make it through
In addition, this bond is essential for the day without hitting or screaming at
the child's emotional stability. A our children. Who has time to give them
recent psychology experiment studied affection? Yet, this is what our
people in their forties, whose parent children crave most from us. We fill our
were emotionally distant from them. houses with toys and things for our
These people were often depressed and children, but it is us that they really
lacked a sense of emotional well being. need.
They had more difficulty in adjusting to There is much talk about the generation
the work environment and new social gap. We all know that adolescents
situations. naturally rebel. Sometimes we look at
How do you develop this type of loving our little children and wonder what is
bond with your child? It begins in your going to be in ten years when this cute
child's infancy and is built by giving little four-year-old turns fourteen.
your child the love and affection that he Will he be one of the children who abuses
needs. drugs? Is he going to steal? Is he
Many well-meaning mothers are completely going to do worse? What is going to be?
unaware that their own children are You need to take the time now, and give
suffering from the lack of physical your child the physical warmth and love
touch. There are many reasons for this. that your child needs. If you build
Most people associate deprived children strong bonds of love with your child now,
as those who are neglected, abused, or while he is still young, then all these
chronically ill. However, the truth is problems that you read about, will be
that many of our children who come from just that; things that you read about.
good homes are not getting the physical You will not experience these problems in
warmth and love that they need. In our your own home, because you have developed
two-income society, unaffectionate a strong relationship with you child.






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