Greenspan and Emily Abedon, respectively) advocate intense coexistence between the

child and the caregiver. These articles (taken from parenting magazine) are, in essence,

guidelines to be used by the parents or caregiver to ensure proper development of their

child up to the second year. The article also educates the reader that every child develops

at their own pace, and there is no exact time table that one can easily look at to see how

well their child is doing. Either way the two articles overly support deep mutual

interaction between both the child and the caregiver.

Stanley Greenspan's The Amazing Power of Baby Love teaches that simple

gestures and interactions help babies develop intelligence, language and character. It

states that at 2 to 4 months (notice the allowance of time Greenspan gives) the child

becomes more involved with the caregiver. Notice the correlation between the authors

statement and Ainsworth's Stages of Attachment (p463-465):

Birth through 2 months- indiscriminate social responsiveness- "at first, babies do

not focus their attention exclusively on their mothers and

caution overstimulating the baby. Also, and probably the most important thing that is to

On top of that, they have their own response to a stimulus. Just because the react a way

-Making sounds or moving in rhythm with motions of your own

that a caregiver was expecting does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong.

abnormal, it's just taking its time.

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