In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain mechanisms behind
healthy caregiving, attachment specialist Daniel A. Hughes and
veteran clinical psychologist Jonathan Baylin guide readers through
the intricate web of neuronal processes, hormones and chemicals
that drive-and sometimes thwart-our caregiving impulses, uncovering
the mysteries of the parental brain. The biggest challenge to
parents, Hughes and Baylin explain, is learning how to regulate
emotions that arise-feeling them deeply and honestly while staying
grounded and aware enough to preserve the parent-child
relationship. Stress, which can lead to "blocked" or dysfunctional
care, can impede our brain's inherent caregiving processes and
negatively impact our ability to do this. While the parent-child
relationship can generate deep empathy and the intense motivation
to care for our children, it can also trigger self-defensive
feelings rooted in our early attachment relationships, and give
rise to "unparental" impulses. Learning to be a "good parent" is
contingent upon learning how to manage this stress, understand its
brain-based cues and respond in a way that will set the brain back
on track. To this end, Hughes and Baylin define five major
"systems" of caregiving as they're linked to the brain, explaining
how they operate when parenting is strong and what happens when
good parenting is compromised or "blocked". With this awareness, we
learn how to approach kids with renewed playfulness, acceptance,
curiosity and empathy, re-regulate our caregiving systems, foster
deeper social engagement and facilitate our children's development.
Infused with clinical insight, illuminating case examples and
helpful illustrations, Brain-Based Parenting brings the science of
caregiving to light for the first time. Far from just managing our
children's behaviour, we can develop our "parenting brains", and
with a better understanding of the neurobiological roots of our
feelings and our own attachment histories, we can transform a
fraught parent-child relationship into an open, regulated and
loving one.
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