This seven-part series features Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. Each episode focuses on a key skill and presents ways to help children acquire that skill, critical to healthy child development: Attachment, Self- Regulation, Affiliation, Attunement, Tolerance and Respect.
| Series 2 — The Six Core Strengths for Healthy Childhood Development |
7— ½ hour episodes
| Episode 1: Developing Potential |
Teaching children these core strengths gives them a gift they will use throughout their lifetimes.
| Airs: Feb. 1–22 | M, F | 6:00 am – 6:30 am |
| Episode 2: Attachment: The Template for Future Relationships |
Healthy attachments allow a child to love, to become a good friend, and to have a positive and useful model for future relationships.
| Episode 3: Self-Regulation: The Capacity to Regulate Internally |
Developing and maintaining the ability to notice and control primary urges such as hunger and sleep—as well as feelings of frustration, anger, and fear—is a lifelong process.
| Episode 4: Affiliation: Joining In |
The capacity to join others and contribute to a group springs from our ability to form attachments. Affiliation is the glue for healthy human functioning.
| Episode 5: Attunement: Thinking of Others |
Awareness is the ability to recognize the needs, interests, strengths, and values of others. Infants begin life self-absorbed and slowly develop awareness - the ability to see beyond themselves and to sense and categorize the other people in their world.
| Episode 6: Tolerance: Accepting Differences |
Tolerance is the capacity to understand and accept how others are different from you. This can be a challenge because children tend to affiliate based on similarities—in age, interests, families, or cultures.
| Episode 7: Respect: Respecting Yourself and Others |
An aware, tolerant child with good affiliation, attachment, and self-regulation strengths gains respect naturally. The development of respect is a lifelong process, yet its roots are in early childhood.
