What is a comforter?
The time for the comforter to enter the country is not long, if it is not to raise a baby, it is really not noticed such an object.
What is a comforter? It is made of unique design and materials, and is a companion for your baby with specific features attached.
The comforter must first meet the standards of infant and young children's products, the material is safe, soft and does not shed hair, to ensure that the baby's daily tearing and biting have no safety problems.
Most of the comforters adopt the design of dolls attached to small hand towels, which are comfortable to the touch and cute in shape, which can bring the baby a sense of security, effectively soothe the baby's emotions, help the baby fall asleep independently, and effectively alleviate the irritability during teething and abstinence.
As you'll find, the most important thing about a comforter is two things: it's clean and safe enough to bite, and emotional companionship with your baby.
Harlow's rhesus monkey experiment
Clean and safe is easy to understand, and when it comes to emotional companionship, we have to talk about Harlow's psychological experiments.
Before Harlow's experiments, there was only one argument about infant attachment to their mothers: We love our mothers because we love their milk. Or another way of saying it: hunger is the first need to be satisfied.
All in all, why do babies become attached to their mothers? If you have milk, you are a mother, in order to eat it!
Harry Harlow is an animal psychologist at the University of Wisconsin. He did a series of experiments with rhesus macaques in the late 1950s. He first discovered some "strange" behavior of the newborn monkey in the laboratory: after separating the little monkey from its mother and other kinds, it showed a strong attachment to the flannel in the cage; took the bottle away, and the little monkey wiped its mouth and continued to play, while after taking the flannel, it screamed in protest. This aroused Harlow's great interest.
Harlow and his colleagues put a newborn baby monkey in an isolated cage and made a surrogate mother out of wire and flannel. The "wire mother monkey" has a rubber nipple that can provide milk on the chest, and the "flannel mother monkey" does not have a feeding setting. According to Harlow, "One is a soft, warm mother, and the other is a mother with infinite patience who can provide milk 24 hours a day." ”
At first, baby monkeys surrounded the "wire mother monkey", but within a few days, a surprising thing happened: the baby monkey only went to the "wire mother monkey" to drink a few sips of milk when hungry, and other times stayed with the "flannel mother monkey"; the baby monkey would run to the "flannel mother monkey" and hug it tightly when threatened by unfamiliar objects, such as a large wooden spider, as if the "flannel mother monkey" would give the baby monkey more security.
That is to say, Harlow's monkeys get food from the "wire mother monkey" but snuggle up next to the "flannel mother monkey".
The impact of Harlow's study
Harlow's research has profoundly influenced contemporary parenting theory, and the concept of parenting has developed greatly on the basis of simple feeding. His experiments have shown that in order to make children grow up healthily, it is necessary to provide him with positive stimulation of various sensory channels such as touch, vision, and hearing, to help children perceive the existence of their parents and get a sense of security from their parents.
Harlow based on his experiments by proposing three variables of love: touch, movement, and play. This conclusion was not perfect, but it was a great improvement at the time.
The Rhesus monkey experiment needs to be said in particular. Before Harlow improved the experimental setup, even the monkeys raised by the "flannel mother monkey" had encountered great problems in the process of growing up, and only after the improvement did they achieve "basic normal" (and only). In a series of subsequent experiments with rhesus monkeys as objects, they adopted some cruel methods, causing great harm to the body and mind of rhesus monkeys, causing widespread controversy and criticism. So it's still a dialectical look at Harlow and his research.
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