{"id":2051,"date":"2016-08-10T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:58:23","slug":"warm-responsive-consistent-caregivers-are-critical-for-the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2016\/08\/10\/warm-responsive-consistent-caregivers-are-critical-for-the-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm, responsive, consistent caregivers are critical for the early years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2016\/08\/frank-ABCFNQ-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2057\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2016\/08\/frank-ABCFNQ-2.jpg\" alt=\"frank-ABCFNQ-2\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On Thursday 4 August, Professor Frank Oberklaid spoke on the ABC Far North Queensland&#8217;s Drive program about the importance of the early years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Research that&#8217;s emerged over the last 20 years or so tells us that the developing brain is exquisitely sensitive to what&#8217;s happening in the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happens in those early years lasts a lifetime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Professor Oberklaid explains just how critical relationships are between a child and their caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where parents are caregivers are warm, responsive and consistent, and the child has a stimulating, nurturing environment, there&#8217;s every chance that child will start off in life and do well later on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clyp.it\/hlvpv2zy\">Listen to the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about how relationships and environments affect the developing brain in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/brain-builders\/\">Brain Builders <\/a>video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frank Oberklaid spoke to the ABC about what&#8217;s needed for optimal early child development. Listen now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[11949,11952,12015],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-frank-oberklaid","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}