PARENTING #101 Bonding for Healthy Attachment

What does it mean to parent, to raise healthy children, to be a “good” parent? While we can answer that question in lots of ways— at the heart of parenting is bonding. It is to connect and to bond with the infant or child so that there is a healthy attachment between parent and child. Now the good thing about this is that every child is genetically wired to seek this attachment. Every child seeks proximity to the parent— seeks to be soothed, feed, nurtured, loved, stroked, embraced, etc. And this will occur if the parent is mindfully present to the child— compassionate, caring, patient, understanding, etc.