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"Build and use a supportive network of friends and family."

To the 14:00 poster, is this what you're referring to, from
"Brain Rules for Baby"? It appears the essential key here, is "friends and family". One expects, that when one is, your "friend or family", they remain so, over the course of many, many years. I whole heartedly agree.

The problem with the barrage of hired nannies, as so vividly described on this forum, is that they are really neither "friend", nor "family", much to the chagrin of thousands upon thousands  of nannies.

Whenever we hear of the rare circumstance of a family continuing an active ongoing friendship with a departed nanny, there is cause for much celebration. For indeed, it is a rare gift to the child, to be allowed by the parents, to maintain communication with his/her former primary caregiver.

The more nannies you hire and fire, the less practical it becomes to maintain an ongoing active relationship with each one of them. At some point, the child becomes utterly bewildered with so many caregivers. Eventually, his ability to form healthy bonds, is shattered, when too many primary caregivers have come and gone.

We often wonder why some children become "loners". They have simply "shut down" after endless failed attempts to form and maintain healthy relationships with consistant and stable primary caregivers.

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This is what I said.

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