Child Care Resources of Rockland urges you to take an active role in being a learner and advocating for fellow professionals to continue their educating and training. Please call 425-0009 x 620 for fee schedule. But we can take comfort in the knowledge that there are many ways that we as parents, as caregivers, as citizens, and as policy makers can raise healthy, happy smart children. We can take heart in the knowledge that there are many things that we as a nation can do, starting now, to brighten young children's future and ours. Early care has decisive and long-lasting effects on how people develop and learn, how they cope with stress, and how they regulate their own emotions.
Babies thrive when they receive warm responsive early care.
Warm and responsive care plays a vital role in healthy development. Individuals' capacities to control their own emotional states appear to hinge on biological svstems shaped by their early experiences and attachments. A strong, secure attachment to a nurturing adult can have a protective biological function, helping a growing child withstand the ordinary stresses of daily lives. The human brain has a remarkable capacity to change, but timing is crucial. In the first decade of life, the brain's ability to change and compensate is especially remarkable.