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Parenting


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Parenting provides you with the opportunity to fall in love—again and again. This bond of love deepens as you actively care for your children—feeding, bathing, and putting them to sleep. But it is the nonverbal emotional connection between infant and parent—the attachment bond—that shapes your baby’s brain and impacts his future mental, physical, and emotional health.  Whether you’re a first-time parent or a grandparent raising grandkids, parenting isn’t easy, but you can acquire the tools you need to best care for a child.

Bonding with Your Baby

Bonding vs the Attachment Bond – The attachment bond, so key to your child’s development, is unrelated to the love and quality of care you give your infant.

Bonding with Your Baby

Building a Secure Attachment Bond With Your Baby – Tips for new parents on how to promote a secure attachment bond with your newborn.

Grandparenting Tips

Grandparenting Tips – Whether you’re a full-time grandparent, step-grandparent, or long distance grandparent, there are things you can do to strengthen the bond with your grandchildren.

Grandparenting Tips

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren – No matter how much you love your grandkids, taking them into your home requires major adjustments.

When Baby Won't Stop Crying

When Baby Won't Stop Crying – Discover time-tested strategies for comforting and soothing an upset or colicky baby.

Separation Anxiety in Children

Separation Anxiety in Children – Learn how to make the separation process easier and identify and deal with separation anxiety disorder.

Attachment & Reactive Attachment Disorders

Attachment & Reactive Attachment Disorders – Explore the warning signs of attachment disorders and learn what you can do to help a child overcome attachment problems.

Weight problems and Obesity in Children

Weight Problems and Obesity in Children – Learn a whole-family approach to helping your child reach and maintain a healthy weight.

Autism Symptoms and Early Signs

Autism Symptoms and Early Signs – By catching autism early, you may be able to interrupt its development. But whatever your child’s age, treatment can help your child thrive.

Self–Help for Adult ADHD

Autism Spectrum Disorders – Learning about the different autism spectrum disorders will help you better understand your own child and find treatment that best addresses your child’s needs.

Helping Children with Autism

Helping Children with Autism – Find treatment strategies that can make a real difference in your child’s life, and parenting tips to make daily home life with an autistic child easier.

Bring Your Life Into Balance

Bonding and secure attachment are rooted and flourish in the safety of an environment shaped by parents who have the skills to remain both calm and focused much of the time. Not all loving parents have these skills, but they can be learned. Helpguide’s Bring Your Life Into Balance Toolkit teaches parents the skills they need to create secure relationships with their infants and children.

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