Secure Attachment Bonds In Early Childhood

In conclusion, parents need to have more knowledge of how important is to have secure attachment bonds with their children in their early childhood. Caregivers need to be more involved and care about their children developmental stages because when children have neglected or abusive environment. Children tend to have negative consequences though out their entire life, when their caregivers didn’t show them affection or to have trust in their selves. As result, some of these negative consequences will be really hard to be erased or help with therapy. Children will suffer to have a good peer relationship as well as romantic relationship because their feelings are lack and they will be always afraid or they don’t know how to show them since they never felt affection with caregivers.
Ebbeck, Phoon,Tan-Chong,Tan and Goh(2015) found that there are many women working out of their homes now days because mothers have to work as well as fathers; children are place in a child care in their early childhood and children have less opportunity to build attachment bonds with their caregiver.
When children are placed in a child care setting during their early childhood stage, children tend to build secure attachments with the educators. There are some statistics that shows children spent 12,500 hours at a daycare before starting elementary school. There are many children enrolling to a child care facility, it has increased tremendously form 52,945 in 2008 to 85,060 in 2013. But, child care children don’t always have secure attachments with the educators because some educators are abusive and neglected towards children. Children with no secure attachment at home and neither at their daycare have tremendous impact developing insecure
attachments.
Child care settings have different age groups and an aged acceptance to start daycare. Infants/toddles aged from 2 to 18 months, preschool aged from 3 to 6 years and afterschool aged from 6 to 13years. Daycare centers have adjusted classrooms depending in children aged and classrooms are aged appropriate. Each child care has their own curriculum and educators have to apply it by aged appropriate, when they are expose to children. All these child care centers have their state regulation and license and also educators have to attend to professional teaching workshops every year. But some of these child care centers don’t have the primary caregiver system that correlates with social emotional and attachment development towards children and caregivers. As results, children have a poor secure attachment with their educators at their daycare. (Ebbeck, Phoon, Tap-Chong, Tan and Goh, 2015)
Besides daycare center issues by not having a great primary care, there are more circumstances that involved insecure attachment with children. Sometime children have an uninvolved parent that is not continuously asking for their child’s well-being, some parents are not concerned in their child’s developmental stages; parents don’t have a communication with the educator, who is watching their child more than 12 hours. In the other hand, some parents don’t want or don’t have the time to have a posited transition from home to daycare, when the infant start childcare. Some parents just go visit daycare few times to fill papers and see around it. The first day their child start daycare, they go in a hurry and dropped them and they leave. Infants don’t have the correct time to warm with their caregivers with their new environment; this type of scenarios might cause infants insecurity to explore their new environment. (Ebbeck,Phoon,Tan-Chong, Tan and Goh,2015)
In conclusion, leaving your children in their early childhood stage in a childcare, it’s not going to help your baby and you to build positive bonds. But, since many mothers are going out and work, they don’t have many options. Unfortunately, some children are most of their time with their daycare educators, than with parents. Usually, when parents are concerned and have empathy mentality towards their children, parents try to stay at least few days with their children’s daycare to help their children’s transition to adjust to the new environment as well with educators at the daycare and they don’t feel insecure to explore around.