Love makes children smarter

For some strange reason, it is always necessary to remind us that primates like us desperately need care.

In a recent study of 46 newborn chimpanzees, University of Portsmouth, England, Kim Bard and colleagues demonstrated that primates have a close relationship with mothers who perform tests. Enlightenment is much better than animals that only receive food, protection and friendship of their species.

But it is not a new news, but in fact it has been a long time.

In the 1950s, Harly Harlow conducted a series of experiments with brown monkeys and showed that the lack of affection and comfort caused monkeys to have mental disorders.

Harlow built a cage with a 'mother' monkey with a plastic face. Inside this 'mother' monkey he put a bottle. The barn also contains another mother monkey, but covered with cotton. Young monkeys spend most of their time with mother monkeys covering cotton and pointing to mother monkeys with strings to eat, which suggests that gentle exposure is still more than daily food.

What's more interesting is that Harlow's experiments all create distraught monkeys when grown up, females who are unable to be mothers because they don't know what a mother's love is.

Love makes children smarter. (Photo: speedera.net)

In addition, Harlow and his colleagues take the baby monkeys into the stable, isolating them from other monkeys, which makes them depressed. The good news is that researchers have been quite successful in recovering psychological trauma for these animals by bringing fun-filled species into the stable as therapists.

Harlow's research is important because at that time pediatricians, child care professionals and grandmothers had a 'no contact, no consolation' policy for children. They often insist that parents do not react when they cry, and that children should sleep alone and grow independently. And this has very bad impact on the children.

However, Harlow's research changed everything. Mothers soon met their children in the hospital.

The current chimpanzee study, based on Harlow's research, shows that mother's love not only provides a psychological balance for children, but also makes them smarter. Bard and colleagues evaluated the cognitive abilities of young chimpanzees when they were 12 months old with tests applied to young children at that age. These tests require children to mimic zigzag lines on paper and lift a cup to find the stone.

Well-cared chimpanzees perform better tests than those that are less cared for, and do you know that chimpanzees who are cared for are better able to take the test than children .

We, of the primates of a social animal, need attachment and love. We need to be hugged and talk and feel that at least there is one person next to me everywhere. And if we have that connection, we will develop completely normal, even better than normal.