10. The Incredible Power of the Twenty-Second Hug
When children feel safe in engaging, interacting, and bonding with you, they
move toward you, allowing you to help them to regulate their emotional distress.
This is the essence of secure attachment. One way you can enhance this process
is through giving your kids a twenty-second full-body hug. It sounds so simple,
and yet we’re often moving so fast that our hugs are short and rushed.
When you hold your child and hug for twenty seconds, the sense of touch and
warmth releases the “bonding hormone,” oxytocin. Oxytocin calms down the
amygdala, and, recent studies show, even helps to increase production of GABA,
which is essential to brain function and helps to promote a sense of calm.
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