The Importance Of Attachment

In this research paper, I am going to be talking about attachment. I choose this topic because it is absorbing and fascinating how important attachment is for our infants and toddlers. Attachment is crucial to a child’s life. Also, another reason for my selection was that I have a son who I adore and I would like to learn more about attachment to help him even though I have a special bonding with my son. I would love to find out more. I learn a lot in my infant and toddler class about attachment, but with this assignment, I will have the opportunity to learn supplementary information from other sources and see things from other points of view. One more reason that I have for choosing this topic is that attachment seemed crucial and was mentioned …show more content…
Primarily, what is an attachment? According to the book, “INFANTS, TODDLERS, and CAREGIVERS” by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and Dianne Widmeyer Eyer attachment is “an enduring affectionate bond between a child and a person who care for the child, giving the child a feeling of safety or security. Building a trusting secure attachment through consistency, responsiveness, and predictability shows children they can trust the caregiver to meet their needs (physical, mental, emotional). Attachment allows children to feel safe in their environment and therefore comfortable to explore and venture out.” This above means that attachment happens when a parent or a primary caregiver takes care of an infant and teaches the baby to trust and that somebody loves him and cares about him. Also, attachment grows with the children and feeds its self by positive interaction, and respectful relationships. What do I mean by respectful relationship?
Build an Attachment Based on a Respectful, Responsive, and Reciprocal …show more content…
Epstein talks about a “consistent primary caregiver, ” and they also talk about how important is to have an ongoing primary caregiver to form an attachment. The article states, “Only then can they form the trusting human relationship that allows them to develop curiosity, courage, initiative, empathy, a sense of self, and a feeling of belonging to a friendly social community.” Personally, I love this quote above because it makes it clear that attachment is the base of an infant’s life. Another thing that I thought it was fascinating about this article is that it talks about how secure attachment help people later on in life to “handle difficult situation in their lives.” How beautiful to leave the heritage of a secure attachment to our