Ask Dr. Ada: How Long to Stay Home with Baby
Dear Dr. Ada:
How long should I stay at home with my baby before returning to my full time work in a law office?
Response:
Ideally, a parent should stay home with a child for the first 2 to 3 years of life. This period is important for establishing a secure sense of attachment between the child and his or her parent, which will enable the child to develop a sense of self identity, self confidence, curiosity, and motivation to learn and develop, love of self and others, as well as feel joy and excitement about life.
You can learn more about the importance of the mother-child relationship in my book, The Drama of the Mother-Child Bond: What Every Woman Should Know about Motherhood, Career and Children available on Amazon.
Dr. Ada Anbar
Ada Anbar holds a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education from the University at Buffalo, and, after a 40-year teaching career, is now a full-time writer.
She is passionate about children and their mothers and likes to reduce the amount of stress in their lives. She wants children to develop their best potential and mothers to have the peace of mind to achieve their best.
She works toward these goals through her books which discuss the different issues in early childhood development and the difficulties that mothers have in balancing their needs with the needs of their children.
The author of several parenting books, Dr. Anbar lives in Phoenix, Arizona close to her children and is the proud mother of two sons and grandmother of six grandchildren.
Ada’s most recent book focuses on one of the aspects at the other end of human development, dementia.
Based on her recent experience with her husband, her new book is “When Love Meets Dementia — Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) and the Family”.
Now available for purchase at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other fine bookstores.
