Mother’s Day
Are You My Mother?
By Dr. Jeanne Giardino on May 10th, 2014
On a sunny Friday morning in May 2008, my daughter and I walked into her preschool classroom. The first thing the children had to do was answer a “Question of the day.” It was Mother’s Day week and the question on the large sheet of white butcher paper was, “Do you look like your mother?”
When a child is born it naturally “imprints” or bonds with the mother. However, what happens when the child is adopted or if the parent is absent?
Relationships that develop between a parent and child are written about extensively in scientific journals, monthly magazines, and even in blogs! I like to keep things simple, however, so I direct families to beautifully-written children’s picture books that convey, through a well-crafted story, the importance of parent/child bonds regardless of how that family came to be. Continue reading