"There's a big difference between attachment parenting as we've come to know it through pop culture and the academic concept of attachment theory," says licensed clinical psychologist Tasha Brown, Ph.D. "People have taken attachment and created their own meanings for it, and we've started to see some pretty extreme examples of how the term is now applied in parenting."
"A prominent feature of healthy attachment means that a child knows that they can stray away from their caregiver or from their base, but that they can also always come back," Brown says. "Children who are more securely attached do well in making friendships and regulating emotions, so healthy attachment is an important focus during a child's early years."
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