As Tina Payne Bryson, author of The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired, shares, “One of the reasons I love attachment science is that the research indicates that there is quite a bit of room for parents to be flawed and that we can make a lot of mistakes, but as long as we help our kids feel safe, seen, and soothed most of the time, their brains wire to securely know that if they have a need, we will see it and show up for them. And when we do that predictably (not perfectly), they learn how to find friends and mates who will
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