Eduard Punset's research on babies (and other topics as well) is revealing. We should all watch the documentary that we have posted on Babies and more about babies' brains to better understand these little human beings, what they feel, and above all, what they need.
I love how the author is able to explain scientific aspects and apply them naturally to the world around us. Babies are a recurring theme in their research, because they believe (I think so too) that the child's first years of life are key to determining his personality.
You have published an article titled How are babies inside? in which he addresses issues of the emotional world of babies as interesting as the ones I quote below:
Until now we didn't know anything about what happened to babies inside. It turns out that one of the first things we have discovered in the emergence of science in emotional processes is that almost everything is decided since the baby is in the mother's womb and until she is four or five years old. When I say almost everything, we decide two things that we have learned to identify and that are fundamental in the life of any person. One is a certain feeling of self-confidence that allows us to deal with the most heinous enemy that hominids have: the neighbor, the other hominid. There is no greater challenge in life than that of the other hominid. "
This also explains the importance of the need for attachment between the child and the mother during the first years of life. Attachment, affection and family containment gives them greater security to face life in the future. Destroy myths like "if he is all day under your skirts tomorrow will be a fool." Nothing more wrong.
Other beads from the Punset article:
The second most important thing we have discovered in babies is curiosity, which should never be lost. The curiosity to properly deal with what we are all committed, although we do not want to admit, that is to get love from the rest of the world. When you are little, the tie, the grandmother, the father, the mother, even the neighbor, they all say that you are fantastic, that you have eyes that would eat them, that you are the tallest, the most intelligent ... But when you leave home , you have to prove it. "
People do not take it for granted, much less. And it is this maternal negotiation, this primary affection that develops until the age of five, that can give you enough curiosity to continue deepening the knowledge of things and people when you break into the world of the elderly. "
In conclusion, the stage of life from conception to about five years, precisely the stage that we cover in the blog, is key to offer the child an emotional environment that will allow him to face life safely, to relate better with others and ultimately, to be a happier person.
