2512: How to Raise Healthy & Resilient Children with Erica Komisar

How to Raise Healthy & Resilient Children with Erica Komisar

• What inspired her to write her book 'Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters'. (1:54)

• The first 3 years are the first CRITICAL period of brain development. (4:52)

• Various attachment disorders. (10:33)

• Defining 'learned helplessness'. (13:35)

• The myths that children need daycare. (15:15)

• Sleep with your children. (18:18)

• Why little boys are more sensitive. (21:07)

• Social-emotional development has to proceed with cognitive development. (24:59)

• Regulating toughness and aggression. (28:24)

• Mothers are the love objects of attachment, and fathers are the love objects of separation. (32:13)

• Advocating for the importance of paid leave. (34:37)

• The lost instinct. (37:53)

• The causes of postpartum. (43:53)

• Breastfeeding is best. (47:55)

• The birthing effects on attachment. (51:49)

• What can fathers do in the first three years to support? (54:46)

• Young children benefit from being talked to. (57:14)

• The greatest gift you can give your children. (59:15)

• Can you repair attachment issues from the first three years? (1:00:07)

• In adolescence, you have a second chance. (1:01:45)

• The importance of the friends your kids choose. (1:04:12)

• The impact of technology. (1:07:19)

• Are children's tantrums a reflection of the parents? (1:14:16)

• Gentle separation process. (1:16:47)

• Building the foundation of resilience. (1:18:45)

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• Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

• How 'alloparenting' can be a less isolating way to raise kids

• Learned Helplessness: Seligman's Theory of Depression

• Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

• How Do Genes Sway the Sensitivity or Resilience of a Child?

• Oxytocin produces more engaged fathers and more responsive infants

• CDC: One in Five Kids Lives with a Mental Health Issue - NAMI

• Primary Maternal Preoccupation - Oxford Academic

• Brain templates for Chinese babies from newborn to three months of age

• Homepage - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

• Australia bans social media for children under 16 | AP News

• Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube

• Mind Pump Free Resources

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• Erica Komisar, LCSW (@ericakomisar) Instagram

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