How do we pass on to our children the capacity to love and create, as well as our insecurities, bad habits, and unresolved anxieties? How do early struggles with our parents reappear later in the way we relate to others? Why do we repeat with our own children - seemingly against our will - the very behaviors we most disliked in our own parents? These questions have long intrigued parents and psychologists alike. Today, these questions seem more urgent than ever as mothers spend less time at home, families fall apart and reassemble in new combinations, and debates rage over the pros and cons of day care. These questions are addressed by Dr. Robert Karen, a parent and clinical psychologist, and author of Becoming Attached: Unfolding The Mystery Of The Infant-Mother Bond. Dr. Karen explains how parents can raise "securely attached" children without becoming experts in child psychology.

20 minutes.
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