Gabor Maté on the Importance of Connecting with Your Child

Check out this interview with Gabor Maté in the Toronto Star. Maté explains how parental connection produces physical changes in a child’s brain:

“The physiology of the child is shaped by the emotional condition of parents, by the environment in which the child grows up. The brain is hungry for dopamine and endorphins to feel good… Love makes us high. A child looks into the eyes of a nurturing parent and experiences a surge of endorphins.” (Emphasis added.)

Maté will be speaking on Navigating Stress: Caring for Oneself While Serving Others at a sold-out workshop at the Trauma and Resiliency Centre in Toronto this Monday, Nov. 30.

"Connected Parenting advises us not just how to parent, but—far more important—who to be as parents. The therapeutic methods suggested by Jennifer Kolari are based not on simple-minded behavioural solutions, but on building warm, nurturing relationships with our children, with insight and compassion not only for their little flaws, but also for our own larger ones."
—Gabor Maté, M.D.

"A must read for parents, educators, and any other adults who want to connect in a deeply caring and positive way with the children in their lives."
—Barbara Coloroso