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the slow art of pouring into something until it pours back
means To care for and feed something or someone over time, helping it grow and develop.
from From Old French 'norture,' meaning food, nourishment, or upbringing, which traces back to Latin 'nutrire,' to suckle or nourish — the same milky root that feeds 'nutrition' and 'nurse.' At its heart the word still smells of the first meal: a mother feeding a child, the most literal pouring-in there is.
- vs nature
- Galton coined the rivalry in 1869, not Shakespeare
- touch starved
- orphaned infants denied affection can die from neglect alone
- rat moms
- licked rat pups grow up calmer, with rewired genes
- word root
- comes from Latin nutrire, to suckle or feed
- twin studies
- upbringing reshapes traits genes merely suggest
attachment theory — john bowlby's 1969 work on how early nurturing bonds between infants and caregivers shape lifelong development
headstart program — us government initiative starting 1965 providing early childhood education and nurturing to disadvantaged preschoolers
kangaroo care — skin-to-skin nurturing method developed in bogotá hospitals in 1978 for premature infants, now globally practiced