The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And indeed all types of caregiver-child interactions tune up that autonomic nervous system, so that the child ends up with an autonomic nervous system that either tends to lean more towards alert and anxious, or can be very alert but calm, or can be very calm and hard to budge.
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But through interactions with our parent, either soothing interactions, or fun, playful interactions, or dare I say, scary interactions, our autonomic nervous system gets tuned up. Meaning, we each develop a tendency to either be more alert and anxious, or more calm, or a balance of alert and calm.
The interactions between child and caregiver early in life take the child and the caregiver from one end of the seesaw to the other. From being very alert in a state of play, for instance, to being nursed and being very soothed until we go to sleep.