Y156 Tma 01

Why are families so important for babies?

Task 1

1 – To give them a sense of security and being loved
2 – To help with communication skills
3 – It is not only families that are important
4 – To provide the ability and confidence to explore the world around them
5 – To provide comfort food and shelter
1 -   Rai and Flynn (2004, p.31) state that 'help to give babies a sense of security and being loved,which is good for their ability to form close relationships'
2 -   Rai and Flynn (2004, p.31) state that 'help with their communication skills in listening to
language and taking turns to 'talk' and listen and to imitate'
3 – Rai and Flynn (2004, p.41) state that some children have a close relationship with a day careworker, foster carer, close friend or relative.'
4 – Rai and Flynn (2004, p.41) state that 'if relationships are secure, the child is able to trust thatothers will protect them when they do not feel safe; this then gives them the confidence and ability to explore the world around them.'
5 – Rai and Flynn (2004, p.38) state that 'all babies need attention, comfort, food, shelter, to be touched, and somewhere to sleep peacefully.'

In this essay I am going to show why families and other people that have frequent contact are
important to babies. I am going to show this by looking at different babies and how each of them rely on different people.

We can see from studying unit one that babies need adults or older children to give them a sense of security and being loved. Rai and Flynn (2004, p.31) state that 'help to give babies a sense of security and being loved, which is good for their ability to form close relationships' however, this does not always come from a parent, it can be a child minder or in Charlotte case it is her play therapist that she has a close relationship with. Charlotte and her mum have a rocky relationship because for the first two years of Charlotte life the family went through a great deal of change with...