The peculiar scientist Eduard Punset has just launched his latest book The Journey to Love, in which he talks about the importance of parental love for the son during the first years of life.
According to Punset, the love we give to our children at an early age determines their adult love and their way of facing affective relationships in the future.
In his essay on love he dedicates a special part to childhood, since he says, and I fully agree with him in that sense, that adult love is forged in the maternal environment in that period of life.
For those who believe that nothing happens to the baby to let him cry in the crib, the scientist's words will surprise them.
He says it is proven that the baby abandoned in the crib, helpless in the dark feels the same lack of protection and uses the same brain mechanisms as the adult against heartbreak.
Maybe adults can remember that enormous emptiness produced by heartbreak to understand the baby who insistently claims us in the crib.
Failure to attend to it could have more serious consequences than we think, because as Punset comments in his book, if the baby receives love and tactile contact with the parents during the first two years of life, it grows with greater self-confidence and generates a self-esteem that will accompany you for the rest of your life.
Interesting words of the scientist in which you can deepen through interviews conducted in the press on the occasion of the launch of his book.
