In this era of outcomes and measurement, assessments and accountability, it is important to be sure our children are growing and developing on a trajectory that will prepare them for school, but the heart of Head Start will always be this unquantifiable truth: the nurturing bond between a child and a good teacher is what makes the classroom a place of safety, curiosity, and love.
On Tuesday, Jennifer Mulford, 36, told the Sun that she's taking a little time off work to focus on love and maintaining the nurturing bond she shares with her boyfriend Brad Leeson, 36 a bond fueled by breast milk.
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.
Then, if another child is born into the family, the resources of Mom and Dad's time and attention in relation to nurturing, bonding, and meeting children's needs are cut no longer in half but, if they're lucky, in thirds.
"When you help someone else, not only do they benefit, but you reaffirm to yourself that you have something of value to give them, and you help to strengthen and nurture a bond with an individual that you're helping," Murthy said.
I found a loving bond with a nurturing adult – and he didn't.
Will she look back on bedtime and think of it as a nurturing time, an hour of bonding, an occasion of love?
The cub, named Kiara, bonded with a nurturing domestic cat for a short time, after her liger mother couldn't produce milk, according to BBC News.
Education — both of immigrants and the American-born — will be critical to nurture bonds of identity.
"He needed a nurturing environment".
