Attaching through love, hugs and play : simple strategies to help build connections with your child / Deborah D. Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Deborah D., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attachment behavior in children.

Parent and child.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Visual and direct in its approach, this book offers simple advice to help parents and carers capture the warmth and fun of forming secure, healthy attachments with children. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray guides you through the 'how to' of forming attachments, describing sensitive parenting activities that stimulate bonding and attachment.

Contents:

Attaching through Love, Hugs and Play Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child; Acknowledgements; Notes to the reader; Introduction; Chapter 1: Close Connections: Bonding and Attachment; How attachment shapes your child's brain; How long does it take to become attached?; Toddlers or children who join your family; Creating positive connections-emotional looping; Techniques that encourage attachment; Cuddling, snuggling, and feeling cozy; Stroking hands and rubbing feet; Cheek-stroking and temple-stroking; Mealtimes and feeding

Parents lead the dance of attachmentAttachment, mirror neurons, and magical brains; Attachment when parents grieve; Attachment and worrying parents; Attachment and trauma; Attachment and friends; Friends when your child has special needs; Summary; Chapter 3: Teaching Our Children Emotional Skills and Daily Responsibility; Teaching our children calming and self-control; Calming through breathing; Playful deep breathing for children; Give myself a hug or shake it out; Simple ways to help children's moods; Learning self-control in daily routines; Attachment and caring for others

Limit-setting, shame, and respectGood modeling and positive attitudes shape children's behavior; Family jobs-negative versus positive parenting models; Routines in children who were neglected; Positive approaches to routines and organization; Positive self-talk and positive behavior; Chapter 4: Brain-Based Strengths and Deficits, and Developing Executive Functioning; Impacts of high stress (cortisol) on children's brains; Executive functioning defined; Executive dysfunction explained; Effects of executive dysfunction on parent relationships with their children

Helping the development of executive functioningAdditional help in assisting executive functioning; Homes of children with executive dysfunction should have few distractions; Attention deficit disorder; Help for attention problems at home: making attention a priority at home; Summary on executive function and dysfunction; Chapter 5: Carrots and Sticks, Rewards and Limits; Noticing behaviors; Types and amounts of rewards; Limits and enforcing limits with negative consequences; Dealing with small bean counters-making up time with jobs or lost pleasures; Lost privileges for the casual child

Nasty words and friendly words, nasty and friendly buckets

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-85700-753-X