A child’s early environment can also be important, says Graham Music, child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. “Recent research has shown that maternal anxiety can be transmitted in utero; stress hormones can be transmitted across the placenta. As they grow up, children are often emotional barometers of their environments.”
The job of the parent, he adds, is to interpret the world for their child. “But you need a balance between being in touch with your child’s anxiety, and also showing them that there is a world outside the anxiety.” Perhaps by distracting them at the right moment.
A great article about how our anxieties are possibly passed to our children without us even realizing it. I’m taking a Trauma Information course and the intention of this class is to understand how our traumas as parents affect our parenting. It is true we are all shaped by our experiences and slowly I am learning what I’m inadvertantly putting on the shoulders of my children that are my issues not theirs.
It’s also always so refreshing to know that some experts agree with me in that what I experience and endured while pregnant could have an affect on Sydney. What a fantastic article.
To read the full article go to http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5124499.ece
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