Monday 18 December 2017

Positive parenting gets “under the skin”, showing up years later in the cortisol response

Positive parenting gets “under the skin”, showing up years later in the cortisol response

Adolescence is when values and relationships are formed and things happen that leave their sticky fingerprints on the life that follows. Even, it seems, in the everyday functioning of brain systems. New research published in Developmental Science shows that when teenagers have a positive relationship with their parents, then as adults their brains and bodies respond to stress in a way that helps them better engage with the world.

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