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@teresamerica No - what I said is that working and time BY ITSELF does not cause changes in attachment issues - all the other scenarios you put forth are totally plausible (eg, “consistent source of comfort”, which is why I said “similar scenarios”). You’re totally right that parental leave...

@teresamerica No it isn’t equally harmful, because that isn’t true that working has a universal (or even somewhat trending) negative influence on parenting. I’m a professor of child development, and the influence of parental working and caregiving/daycare on attachment is one of the most studied...

@teresamerica this anecdotal info isn’t indicative of actual overall trends in infant / caregiver relationships and is mentally harmful to parents that need or want to work.

@teresamerica Babies and children can and do have multiple strong attachment figures. It’s not a “one or the other”. Ideally in a situation like OP is posting, the child would be attached to both mom (and dad?) and daytime caregiver (though at a mere few months old this would be considered more...

@azark I love all the prenatal learning literature. But this doesn’t show newborns understand what the concept of mom means. It suggests that they prefer familiar things (some of which have to do with mom and some of which don’t - like the sound of the family dogs barking). So newborns know...

@heismerciful The road to creating strong attachment to parental figures is based on lots of input and not prewired at birth. In fact, our attachment styles can change even through adulthood. What this research shows is that newborns prefer “familiar” things, and what is familiar at first are...

@rockdrik yes, I’m sure it’s field specific, and given that this thread topic is about dev psych, it seemed relevant to note that this isn’t necessarily encouraged in our field. I have colleagues in not just psych but bio and chem at my institution who have been reprimanded for too much...

@rockdrik There are always requests for a few sentences on “broad applications” in large federal grants and publications. But, no, I have absolutely no requirements for doing this practically for my professorial position or publication records. This may be because of the type of research I do...

@rockhopper72 while this negates your last point (so you’ll have to take my word for it), I’m a professor in cognitive development, and you’re on the money. Dev psych is getting BETTER about stats, larger sample sizes, pre-registration, etc, but there’s a long way to go. It’s only in the...

@angel898000 I completely get it - but you aren’t harming anything! Babies might go through small phases where they prefer one person over another for a matter of weeks or months, but that is very common even when all those bonds are super secure (and often has to do with … nothing … other than...

@thesavvy Even a few years ago 5 mcg/dl was considered the threshold for flagging lead levels - so that’s still quite a low number in the scheme of things. With that level what is sometimes seen are mild attention deficits / adhd later in life, and maybe an IQ downtick of a point or two. But...

@angel898000 Babies show preferences for mom’s smell and sound from birth - as demonstrated by other posters’ sources. This isn’t “knowing mom” but is a familiarity preference learned prenatally (you can also elicit this via foods mom ate, songs they heard prenatally, etc) and is obviously...

@justakitty 3.5 is actually the current cutoff for flagging for “high” lead levels. It drops every few years because as they say “no amount of lead is good”. That being said, most research is correlational and nothing is determined for any given child, so even with the information provided don’t...

@asurfpro We had it retested by someone at the state level who didn’t just use dust samples, they used an XRF gun. Through some trial and error we realized the whole basement was completely coated and the cat was bringing it all over the house because her litter box was there. A real strange...

@joshuaray What would you like to know? I’m a child dev phd who had my infant test above threshold even though we had our victorian home tested and (we thought) remediated before he was born. Since that incident Ive started work on some big national lead projects, looking at cognitive outcomes...

@hemispheres I thought it was great. I think everyone can decide if their kids are mature enough to deal with a lot of content that basically says “being female is really hard” - because that’s the bottom line. I probably wouldn’t take my littles because like you said it’s not made for them. But...

@churchface As a child dev Phd / professor, I personally like Emily Oster a lot (and she’s friends with many of my friends / dev PhD colleagues). Mostly she actually doesn’t offer advice - she offers numbers and relative risks and says “make your own decisions based on your personal comfort with...

@faith2017 The early motherhood days, especially with multiple kids and working parents, are definitely not what most would consider the “best time of their lives”. There are high points, sure, but it’s hard as hell.