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May 2024
30m 16s

149: Prioritizing Motherhood. With Erica...

Jeanne-Marie Paynel, M. Ed.
About this episode

Do you strongly feel that staying home would be best for your child? Listen in to find out why your hunch is correct and critical.

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We know in our mama's heart that staying home with our children is important because they need us to. Today, my guest confirmed this instinct we have as mothers and why it is critical to do so.

What We Talked About:
  • Understanding why the first three years are critical for our child's long-term mental health

  • Why are daycare centers not equipped to support our children’s attachment needs

  • What is “consistency of care,” and why is it essential in the early years?

  • What are other critical stages for our children’s mental health?

  • The important revolution that needs to happen for the health of families

Things to Remember

“There is no parenting without presence.”

“Without guilt, our conscience isn’t working.”

“The foundation of resilience is that feeling of security in the first three years.”

“Mothers are very attuned to babies' distress.”

“If you are present for your children in the first three years, you’re encouraging a tremendous amount of neural connections to be formed.”

“Your babies are not resilient; your babies are incredibly vulnerable, and they need you.”

-Erica Komisar

“There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

 

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