Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this view… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work.… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality.... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere.... The cost… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
