The Nurture Revolution Quotes

“Wanting to be close and held is what your baby’s survival biology needs in order to be regulated. Separation from caregivers is a threat to a baby’s survival and activates their brain circuitry to cry or cling.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“So when you feel challenged by nurture, this is why: You are doing something profound. You are doing tremendous work building a brain, the most complex thing in existence besides perhaps the universe. You are building countless brain cells and receptors in your baby’s brain with your brain. This is intense, deep work and something to truly be proud of and celebrate.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“If you can practice bringing your attention back to being present with your baby, you exercise your adult mind to be more emotionally intelligent, better at self-regulating, more empathetic, and you strengthen those parts of your brain undergoing neuroplasticity as you become a parent.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“When you understand that you are their external emotional brain, an undeveloped brain part, you can grow to understand that whenever your baby’s stress system is activated is when they need your nurtured presence to support the growth of their brain.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“Psychologist Louis Cozolino writes, “We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.”21 The future is survival of the nurtured.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“How do we make our baby feel seen? Really see them? Put everything down, no distractions, no multitasking, clear your mind, and look at them. Take them in with your eyes, your ears, and your being. How do we show our baby that we care that they are here? Light up when they enter your sight, feel and express the joy you have that they are in your life. How do we tell them they are enough? Accept them in the present moment regardless of their emotional state; direct your attention to the amazing person your baby is right now. How can they tell that they are special by the way we look at them? Evoke a feeling of awe inside of yourself, think about the miracle of life, your baby’s journey to you, and their special qualities. Then look at them with awe.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

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― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“Might we get special access in parenthood to rewire our emotional brains that developed in infancy? We can repeat what happened to us—the way we were programmed to parent. Or we can change by consciously nurturing and taking advantage of this adult neuroplasticity that occurs as we become parents. When we immerse our developing parenting brains in oxytocin from nurture and create conscious changes, we can dramatically reshape our amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and insula toward mental health.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

“Mental health is made up of complex emotional and cognitive brain circuits, largely formed by relationships in early life, from conception to about age three.”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting