Infant Development and Bonding

term used to describe a parent’s tie to an infant and typically occurs early in the child’s life. Today we are going to explore why bonding is so important.

• Love

• Bonding

• Attachment

term used to describe a parent’s tie to an infant and typically occurs early in the child’s life.

• Love

• Bonding

• Attachment

theory that primary caregivers who are available and responsive to an infant's needs allow the child to develop a sense of security or trust.

• Bonding

• Attachment

• Love

Infants who experience insecure attachment relationships will:

• become disorganized, angry and aggressive.

• be able to deal with stress

• be able to balance emotions

• feel safe and secure

Infants who develop secure attachment relationships will become:

• angry

• disorganized

• less stressful

• aggressive

means that race, religion, heritage,

education or economic status do not matter as we all go through the same steps

in pretty much the same order/way.

• Development builds on earlier learning.

• Development is similar.

• Development proceeds at an individual rate.

• Development is interrelated.

• Development is continuous throughout life.

means that just as we cannot build a

house from the roof down, we do not learn from the complex to the simple. It’s

just the opposite and is sequential, orderly and predictable. For example, we

must know our letters before we can read words and sounds before we can

speak language.

• Development is continuous throughout life.

• Development builds on earlier learning.

• Development is interrelated.

• Development proceeds at an individual rate.

• Development is similar

means that we will not all learn to

do things at the same rate of speed and will vary from one person to the next.

I’m sure if we took a poll of the age each person in the room walked, we would

see a lot of different ages.

• Development is similar

• Development builds on earlier learning.

• Development is continuous throughout life

• Development proceeds at an individual rate.

• Development is interrelated.

means that many changes take place physically,

intellectually, emotionally and socially all at once like threads that are

interwoven. All of the PIES work together to make us complete

• Development is interrelated.

• Development builds on earlier learning.

• Development is continuous throughout life

• Development proceeds at an individual rate.

• Development is similar

means that development begins at

birth and continues until death. We never stop learning, however, there are

critical windows or periods when growth and development are more optimal.

For example, the optimal window for learning a foreign language is young and

that window closes around age twelve.

• Development is similar

• Development proceeds at an individual rate.

• Development is interrelated.

• Development is continuous throughout life

• Development builds on earlier learning.