Ready to Learn Mom

Authors: Lynette C. Magaña with Judith A. Myers-Walls and Dee Love

There are different kinds of attachment relationships that can be put into different categories. These categories can describe children’s relationships with both parents and childcare providers. Research has found that there are at least four attachment categories. The categories describe the ways that children act and the ways that adults act with the children. The strongest kind of attachment is called ’secure.’ The way a parent or provider responds a child may lead to one of the four types of attachment categories. The way a child is attached to her parents also affects how she will behave around others when her parent is not around.

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Tags: attachment parenting, attachment relationships, parent-child relationship