Monkey Love
The bond between a mother and her child is instantaneous and beautiful. Newborns automatically feel safe when they are first put into their mother’s arms after birth. Feeling safe around your mother as a child is completely normal. Harry Harlow simply wanted to study love and created several experiments for this. His experiments were long meditations on love, and all the ways we ruin it. Harlow was not a very loving man himself, according to his son and students. He also suffered with depression at a young age and had trouble fitting in, which could have sparked his interest in studying love. However, Harlow was not interested in human love, but monkey love. In 1930, Harlow got a job at the University of Wisconsin which is where …show more content…
It is very important for a child and her mother to have a strong bond. Sometimes it is not enough to feed your baby and make sure they are getting enough rest. New parents get bombarded with advice and it can be very overwhelming. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new infant sleep guidelines that worried some parents. These guidelines were highly recommending that babies sleep in the same room as their parents for at least the first 6 months. Suffocation, strangulation and sudden instant death syndrome (SIDS) kill 3,500 babies a year in the United States. Sharing a room with your baby could cut babies’ chance of dying by 50 …show more content…
Sleeping in the same room as your child could cause parents to not get enough sleep, which can lead to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is very dangerous for both the parents and the child. A professor at West Virginia University, Hawley Montgomery-Downs, discovered that sleep-deprived parents have tendencies similar to drunkenness. Sleep deprivation can also lead to car accidents caused by falling asleep while driving. By keeping a child in the room, parents also lose privacy which can cause stress to marriages and families. Parents feel pressured to keep their child in the same room when they hear about these recommendations. It makes them feel obligated to watch over their baby every moment of the day and they start to feel guilty when they can’t. This is certainly impossible, but the thought of something bad happening to their baby terrifies
The bond between a mother and her child is instantaneous and beautiful. Newborns automatically feel safe when they are first put into their mother’s arms after birth. Feeling safe around your mother as a child is completely normal. Harry Harlow simply wanted to study love and created several experiments for this. His experiments were long meditations on love, and all the ways we ruin it. Harlow was not a very loving man himself, according to his son and students. He also suffered with depression at a young age and had trouble fitting in, which could have sparked his interest in studying love. However, Harlow was not interested in human love, but monkey love. In 1930, Harlow got a job at the University of Wisconsin which is where …show more content…
It is very important for a child and her mother to have a strong bond. Sometimes it is not enough to feed your baby and make sure they are getting enough rest. New parents get bombarded with advice and it can be very overwhelming. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new infant sleep guidelines that worried some parents. These guidelines were highly recommending that babies sleep in the same room as their parents for at least the first 6 months. Suffocation, strangulation and sudden instant death syndrome (SIDS) kill 3,500 babies a year in the United States. Sharing a room with your baby could cut babies’ chance of dying by 50 …show more content…
Sleeping in the same room as your child could cause parents to not get enough sleep, which can lead to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is very dangerous for both the parents and the child. A professor at West Virginia University, Hawley Montgomery-Downs, discovered that sleep-deprived parents have tendencies similar to drunkenness. Sleep deprivation can also lead to car accidents caused by falling asleep while driving. By keeping a child in the room, parents also lose privacy which can cause stress to marriages and families. Parents feel pressured to keep their child in the same room when they hear about these recommendations. It makes them feel obligated to watch over their baby every moment of the day and they start to feel guilty when they can’t. This is certainly impossible, but the thought of something bad happening to their baby terrifies