Experts claim how you treat your child in its early years can impact on the rest of their life

Psychotherapist Sue Gerhardt, author of controversial new book Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, has found that a baby’s nervous system is shaped by early relationships.

Positive facial expressions, hugs, kisses and loving care can all improve your child’s ability to cope with life as an adult.

“It is possible to predict future problems as early as the age of six to 10 months, not from the baby’s temperament so much as the mother’s behaviour,” Sue said…

In our highly materialist driven world, new mothers find themselves going back to careers or jobs for money or adult stimulation, resulting in many babies being cared for by strangers in nurseries.

Experts like Sue and child guru and author Stephen Biddulph are now warning that these children are missing out on the constant love a one-to-one carer can give.

He said: “Probably the most stressful experience of all for a baby or toddler is to be separated from his or her mother. Early separation from the mother increases corticotrophin in the amygdala…

Stephen agrees and has spent the past five years examining studies of infants in long-term nursery care.

In his book, Raising Babies, he claims that during the first two years of life, brain development unfolds at its best with one-to-one care. This care could be from mother, father, a loving relative or, if necessary, a single, attentive paid carer…

Source: Daily Record
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