TEDxTC - Terrie Rose - From the Baby's Point Of View

Looking for solutions to the yawning achievement gap for children in poverty, Terrie Rose sees the path of success through the eyes of babies. Because toxic stress, she shows us, influences the abilities of babies to form relationships, manage emotions and learn, with life long consequences, she shares a holistic understanding of mental health and the pathway for success.

Terrie Rose, PhD, LP, Founder and Executive Director, Baby's Space, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.babyspace.org

Using her own experiences as a mother and child psychologist, Terrie rose has pioneered Baby's Space, a full-spectrum approach to the symptoms of poverty and trauma as experienced by young children and their families. She is an Ashoka Fellow, joining an international group of social entrepreneurs who create system-changing solutions to the world's most urgent social problems. Most recently she received the 2011 Lewis Hines Award presented annually by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) recognizing her unheralded and exceptional service to children. In 2011, she also was awarded with the Outstanding Service Award from the Minnesota Association of Children's Mental Health.

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[Theodore Hoppe]

This is a brilliant talk and one of the reasons I seek out TEDx talks.

Day Care is a social experiment and its time we start asking, "If day care is the answer, what was the question?" We have, in the last 50 years, created policies that that work against marriage and families. I could go on and on about this, but I'll just ask that you start to notice the "red flag" children, the one's coming down the river.

[Jennifer Arrow]

I'll admit it: I cried at Tamara's happy ending. Thanks for this.

[Jessica Enneking]

What a wonderful video!  Thanks for posting!

[maraceol]

Sing it, sister!

Insecure relationships aren't just a feature of extreme poverty, either. According to the AAP, parenting "techniques" such as Babywise that tell parents to essentially train their child that their needs are unimportant are linked to things like infant stress, slow growth, delayed development, dehydration, and failure to thrive.

Hold your babies. Respond to them. It's not manipulation, it is an expression of NEED from a human being who can't do it for themselves yet.

[marksig]

Great information.