Caring experiences affect the way that emotion regulation systems are wired up for later life and how positive emotions are stimulated.19 These caring behaviours also enable children to lay down emotional memories that then become a resource for later life; they also have a profound effect on how the three emotion regulation systems are balanced. There is a now a lot of evidence that, if we experience caring in childhood, it helps us to deal with the various ups and down of life – it’s one of the things that makes us resilient to stress. Having current support and caring relationships is
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