Raising Children to Thrive: Affect Hunger and Responsive, Sensitive Parenting

Description

In this world of information overload and constant distraction, parents are experiencing an urgent need for direction on how to raise their children based on the cutting-edge science of child development. New research shows that infants possess considerable social and emotional capacity to engage their parents in ways that run far deeper than ever before realized.

Throughout Dr. Ron Ruff’s nearly fifty years of clinical practice as a psychologist, he encountered thousands of parents with only good intentions to help their children. Unfortunately, many did not know where to turn for information, support, and answers related to raising their children to become emotionally healthy adults.

In Raising Children to Thrive, Ruff explores affect hunger, an emotional craving for maternal love, protection and care, and how this longing can be used to create a strong nurturing relationship.