Your best friend is about to have her first baby. Describe for her three attachment behaviors she
will observe from her child during the first year of life.
Then discuss with her three things she
can do to help build the attachment relationship with her child. Include the words attachment
and synchrony as well as information on the long term effects of a secure parent-child
attachment in your discussion with her.
What will be an ideal response?
Infants are born ready to attach to their caregivers. This can be observed in the variety of
attachment behaviors that they elicit almost immediately after being born. These include crying,
smiling, making eye contact, grasping, and other behaviors that draw attention from the caregiver to
the baby. The attachment relationship is already begun before the baby is born in that he or she can
recognize familiar voices, especially that of his/her mother and her smell and face shortly after birth.
Parents who recognize the beginnings of attachment are well advised to respond, helping the child to
realize that when they have a need, it will be taken care of by a sensitive, responsive caregiver. You
can't spoil a newborn infant as their brains are too immature to be manipulative. Rather, sensitive
responding builds trust and later independence and secure feelings towards the caregiver that get
generalized to the infant's world. Synchrony is critical for this secure attachment to take place. It is
responding back whenever your baby signals you-through their cries, their smiles, their early cooing.
By responding back you build a close attachmentwith your infant. Children who have a secure
relationship with their mothers, begun in infancy, later, are more sociable, have closer friendships, are
less aggressive, rated as leaders, do better in school, and feel better about themselves more than those
who did not have a secure attachment.
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