All Families are welcome! Human connection is critical to bonding and attachment across the human lifespan. The opposite of connection is a terrified child growing up in chaos and confusion. The connection provides safety and security. Promoting opportunities for fathers to bond with their infants impacts society. Supporting parental leave with infants addresses so many…
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Anything you can do, I can do too! A rally call to fathers!
OPTIMAL CAREGIVING PRACTICES OF INFANTS AND TODDLERS For nearly 100 years Social and Behavioral Scientists researched bonding and attachment. Bonding is the chemical process of sensory processing that creates a secure “chemistry” between an infant and their primary caregiver. Attachment is the bond that endures over time due to consistent nurturing and caring behaviors. However,…
Siblings can massage the infant too! Encourage bonding.
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What does the mothering research mean?
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What fathers shared about learning to massage their infants!
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TEDxTallahassee Fathers!
The TED talk went well yesterday. What was amazing was how almost all of the other TED speakers had something in common with each others presentation. It was an incredible day and an incredible experience. I have to confess I never saw this coming. I desired a venue to get the word out about infant…
Massage and siblings!
Anthropologist Ashley Montague, author of Touching, states that a child’s close relationship with his parents is a source of basic self-esteem. “Persons who are callously unresponsive to human need, who have become so hardened that they are no longer in touch with the human condition, are not merely metaphorically so,” he says, “but clearly physiologically…
Communication is 10% verbal and 90% Body Language!
Humans never cease to amaze me in the grandiosity of believing the spoken word is the only form of communication. Yet we truly communicate only 10% with our words and 90% is non-verbal. That we are so amazed when we find out dolphins, whales and other life forms are communicating is on us. It’s not…
My training in Infant Massage saved my dogs life!
Last Wednesday my little dog Lucie coded on the floor. I had my back to her and heard the most indescribably horrific cry unlike any I have ever experienced. I looked and she was sprawled flat on the floor. The cry said to me, “I am dying help me! ” I scooped her up in…
Why Infant Massage is the most cost effective parenting tool!
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