How to Raise Healthy & Resilient Children with Erica Komisar

• What inspired her to write her book ‘Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters’. (1:54 )

• The first 3 years are the first CRITICAL period of brain development. (4:52 )

• Various attachment disorders. (10:33 )

• Defining ‘learned helplessness’. (13:35 )

• The myths that children need daycare. (15:15 )

• Sleep with your children. (18:18 )

• Why little boys are more sensitive. (21:07 )

• Social-emotional development has to proceed with cognitive development. (24:59 )

• Regulating toughness and aggression. (28:24 )

• Mothers are the love objects of attachment, and fathers are the love objects of separation. (32:13 )

• Advocating for the importance of paid leave. (34:37 )

• The lost instinct. (37:53 )

• The causes of postpartum. (43:53 )

• Breastfeeding is best. (47:55 )

• The birthing effects on attachment. (51:49 )

• What can fathers do in the first three years to support? (54:46 )

• Young children benefit from being talked to. (57:14 )

• The greatest gift you can give your children. (59:15 )

• Can you repair attachment issues from the first three years? (1:00:07 )

• In adolescence, you have a second chance. (1:01:45 )

• The importance of the friends your kids choose. (1:04:12 )

• The impact of technology. (1:07:19 )

• Are children’s tantrums a reflection of the parents? (1:14:16 )

• Gentle separation process. (1:16:47 )

• Building the foundation of resilience. (1:18:45 )

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• Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

• How ‘alloparenting’ can be a less isolating way to raise kids

• Learned Helplessness: Seligman's Theory of Depression

• Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

• How Do Genes Sway the Sensitivity or Resilience of a Child?

• Oxytocin produces more engaged fathers and more responsive infants

• CDC: One in Five Kids Lives with a Mental Health Issue - NAMI

• Primary Maternal Preoccupation - Oxford Academic

• Brain templates for Chinese babies from newborn to three months of age

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• Australia bans social media for children under 16 | AP News

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