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Healthy Parenting When parents are emotionally unavailable, a child tends to pull away from needing them. According to Daniel J. Siegel, the author of, "The Mindful Brain" this is called an avoidant childhood attachment. If parents are inconsistently attuned to a child, with frequent intrusions of their own state into their child, then the child develops an ambivalent/anxious relationship with his parents. In the event the parent is the source of terrified behaviors that induces in the child a state of fear without resolution, such an attachment is termed by Siegel as disorganized attachment. And of course, there might be several cases where upbringing of a child is clearly reflected in the parent's influence on the child. Since each child goes through different life experiences during his childhood, these experiences may manifest later in adulthood with emotional or psychological challenges.
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