Building Bonds: How Children Discover Independence Through Love, Not Isolation
Image Credit: depositphotos.com An increasing number of parents are recognizing the importance of unstructured time for their children, a concept championed by British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott in his 1958 work, “The Capacity to Be Alone.” Winnicott argued that the ability to be comfortably alone is a crucial sign of emotional maturity, and it flourishes not…