However, learning the abilities to self-soothe and self-regulate are widely held to be developmental goals of the infant/caregiver attachment relationship.
The introjection of the good breast provides a location where one can hide from persecution, an early step in developing a capacity to self-soothe.
Three were identified a priori as regulation behaviors look away, self-soothe, and withdraw!; activity was identified as a potential "upregulation" behavior.
Learn to self-soothe and to be comfortable alone.
Babies who can't self-soothe grow into preschoolers who won't sleep unless there's a cuddly parent in their bed.
She must learn to self-soothe when she wakes in the middle of the night.
