Middle Childhood Attachment Analysis

The bond that a child and a parent share is so indescribable that it can only be understood by a feeling. A child is the creation of both a male and a female that are bringing two souls into one. The child in that case, not only possesses their characteristics genetically, but also the behaviors that the parents illustrate physically. As a child is transitioning between preschool years and middle childhood years, the change is not significant. In fact, children at this age tend to stay stagnant. This is the timeframe well known as the “calm after the preschool years, before the storms of adolescence hit”(Holden, 2015, p. 262). The child is experiencing a shift from being in the house to a variety of different social environments that affects

Nurture is one of many roles that come into play when it comes to the physical and emotional autonomy of the child. During the early childhood years, the child forms one of four attachments to the parent: secure, insecure, preoccupied or dismissing. Dependent on the type of attachment the child and parent share, it has a strong affect on the behavioral issues the child will posses during its middle childhood experience. “If the child shares a secure attachment to the parent, it would be related to high levels of warm parental involvement, psychological autonomy granting, and behavioral monitoring and control. In contrast, mothers of avoidant attached children are less responsive, more withdrawn, consistently rejecting, and uncaring low levels for all three levels was expected to be associated with an avoidant attachment style” (Karavasilis, pp.

The bond a child shares with a parent is so emotionally powerful that it can affect the behavior of the child externally. “Children who had been insecure with both parents were at a substantially higher risk for behavior problems than those who had been secure with at least one parent. But security with either parent could offset such risks…” (Kochanska). Children, regardless of their age, crave attention. A child, whose parents hardly shows them any type of attention, is more likely to lash out with mal behavior because they simple want to be seen and heard. As previously stated, even just one securely attached relationship with one of the parents altars the behavior the child will express during his middle childhood years. “Results indicated that secure children depicted fewer conflict themes in their narratives than did disorganized/controlling children, produced more discipline themes than avoidant children, and had higher coherence scores than ambivalent children. Avoidant children also depicted fewer conflict themes than disorganized/controlling children. Finally, children’s narrative conflict themes significantly predicted both level of externalizing and total behavior problems, even after controlling for variance explained by gender and disorganized/controlling attachment behavior” (Moss, "Links between children's attachment behavior at early school-age,