Dedication -- Introduction -- Close connections: attaching and bonding -- Put your oxygen mask on first -- Teaching children to calm, care, and think: behavior and daily routines -- Helping children with thinking and caring -- "Carrots and sticks" : rewards and limits -- Life stories -- Promoting attachment in tweens and teens -- Summary -- Epilogue
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
