Secure Attachment

Attachment styles are characterized by different ways of interacting and behaving in relationships. During early childhood, these attachment styles are centered on how children and parents interact.

In healthy parent-child relationships, a secure attachment develops when a child’s caregiver functions as a safe base for the child to explore their environment.

Here are some of the aspects of parent-child relationships that lead to secure attachment.

Attunement

Guidance

Nurturing

Play

Predictability

Protection

Attachment isn’t a magical, mystical, insubstantial thing within a person or relationship. It grows out of the way care-givers show up day in and day out with their children.