Parents on MSN

10 Signs Your Child Has a Secure Attachment—Backed by Psychologists

Children who have a secure attachment are confident, resilient, and emotionally intelligent. Here, mental health experts ...
Parents on MSN

4 Signs of Anxious Attachment in Kids—Backed by Psychology

If your child suffers from separation anxiety and low self-confidence, they might have developed what psychologists call an ...
Psychology Today

Disorganized Attachment: The Childhood Environment

Welcome back to the second part of my series on disorganized attachment. In the first article, I explored how children with anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment styles each have predictable ...
Rolling Out

How childhood attachments shape your adult relationships

The way we connect with others as adults is often shaped by our earliest experiences with caregivers. From birth, a child seeks comfort, security and love, forming attachments that become the ...
Times Union

‘Difficult’ children are only slightly more likely to have insecure attachments with parents

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Or Dagan, Long Island University Post and Carlo Schuengel, Vrije Universiteit ...
Cal Alumni Association

Does Attachment Research Focus Too Much on Moms?

Imagine a sudden rustle in the tall grass. A ripple of alarm passes through the group of early humans who live together amid ancient, rugged terrain. In the center of the encampment, a three-year-old ...
New Haven Register

‘Difficult’ children are only slightly more likely to have insecure attachments with parents

(THE CONVERSATION) Children with difficult temperaments, including personality tendencies such as irritability and having a hard time being comforted, are only slightly more likely than other children ...