Emotional support from an early age was very important in the early years of children’s lives, both emotionally and emotionally and in brain development, the environment in which the child lives is essential for him to learn how to use emotional regulation tools and so that he can enjoy emotional health in childhood.
Emotional support creates a stable bond between the baby and caregivers, ensuring satisfaction of the baby’s needs and creating an intimate emotional bond. This stability and predictability in the relationship with your caregivers allows you to build a secure attachment relationship.
- In addition to the obvious benefits of adequate emotional support.
- Several studies have been conducted to determine the impact of this support in all areas.
- The mental health of the child and the regulation of their emotions are beneficial.
- But there are also conclusions about the influence of emotional feelings.
- Support for brain development.
In childhood, the child is unable to regulate his emotional states on his own, contact, both physical and emotional, allows him to calm down in adverse situations, over time he learns to control his emotions in the absence of his caregivers, developing emotional regulation tools.
This early connection has a direct impact on the organization of the brain, it should be noted that a child’s development is influenced by genetics, the environment in which it grows and the psychic and mental capacity it develops over time. a healthy environment full of external stimuli will promote the maturity of your brain.
Childhood is a delicate period during which several important aspects develop and have a long-term impact. At this stage, they begin to relate to the environment and collect new information; your brain is developing Neuroplasticity is at its highest and the environment will repeatedly determine the direction and speed of development.
A study was conducted to understand the long-term impact that emotional support could have on the brain, for this purpose an experiment was conducted in which independent evaluators observed preschoolers in a laboratory and their mothers in a stressful situation for them.
In the experimental situation, the children had a gift at hand that they could not open. During the 8 minutes they were not allowed to open it, supportive behaviors were noticed by mothers. Subsequently, CT scans were performed on children who participated in research until early adolescence to monitor their brain development.
The hippocampus of children who received more support from mothers increased in volume twice as fast as the hippocampus of children whose mothers showed less favorable behavior. According to the authors, the results show that the development of the hippocampus is affected by the early experience of the mother. Support.
With this study we can draw some conclusions. First, emotional support has a long-term impact on the volume of the hippocampus. The hippocampus is an area of the brain that handles functions related to emotions, learning and memory formation, so it has fundamental implications for human development.
There is a more sensitive period in which high levels of emotional support will have a greater influence on the development of the infant hippocampus, it has been found that it is more important and effective in preschool than in school age, so we can conclude that it does not matter how much emotional support is the child, but also the developmental moment in which the child is.
Healthy brain development leads to better emotional health, in this sense the environment is crucial, both for learning and physical and emotional development, a fact that does not minimize the influence of genetics, but highlights the important role of the environment in development. of the architecture of our brains. A window of opportunity that we should never close because we love our children.