"Helping build babies brains is the most important job parents have: thankfully, it is also the most pleasureable, because the brain is literally constructed with loving interactions. Leaving babies to cope with stressful situations alone won't toughen them up or teach them to be independent. Infants' brains are exquiaitely designed to develop under the guidanceo f an adult brain: all of their senses need to be anchored to this brain. Keeping this anchor steady allows your baby's brain to forge the pathways needed to become a happy, loving, and resilient adult."
p. 64, HELPING BABY SLEEP...the science and practice of gentle bedtime parenting, by Gethin and Macgregor.
Our shared Book Application Collaborative this term conducted internships with Global Parent homes based on the research gathered by Gethin and Macgregor in HELPING BABY SLEEP...the science and practice of gentle bedtime parenting.
Our high school programming is unique at this point in the global sphere. Eduardo's Contribution of Great Merit promises to expedite the marketing and adoption of illuminary curriculum and illustrious pedagogy by playing them forward electronically in a multitude of networking ways over the next five years. Our world peace deserves this catalyst.
Our mentors, professors, give us direct and simulated exposure to families who practice ways that match the research in attachment security and healthy brain development. We gain worldly experience through playing our learning forward with diverse families throughout New York City. In every borough, here we are!
Our internships give us opportunities to support and educate families who normally don't find the time or know-how on their own to connect all the dots published by research communities. Their schedules or backgrounds have limited them to accept only the highly commercialized and unfortunately popularized "sleep training"of old. Parents, however, once updated and "demythed" become truly grateful to have help in switching gears. They express that sleep "training" really went against their natural grain as parents attuned to their vulnerable infants. They are happy to once again pay attention to their intuitive sense that letting babies just cry it out -sometimes for hours- made no sense and was indeed painful as well for parents otherwise attuned to their babies' frightful wails of anxious suffering.
Our internship families thus selected the paragraph above as the most convincing to share with new parents and parents to be over the next six months in their neighborhoods and clinics (This is the commitment they make to recieve internships support in their homes for a semester ... they promise to play the good forward where they live, work, and participate in services throughout neighborhoods!).
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