77). Homeschooling will allow for more parentchild interactions that are positive and stable, while allowing for basic needs to be met such as food, shelter, and safety thereby increasing the family bond and attachment. The one on one time that children should receive from their parents in infancy can be met at this later age. In fact, one of the main reasons parents choose to homeschool their children as stated in the article "Revisiting the Common Myths about Homeschooling?" by Michael Romanowski is "third, they want to foster family relationships amongst siblings and parents" (Romanowski, 20, pg 129). Parents of children with attachment disorders need even more time to bond with their child, thereby allowing the child to learn trust and attachment. This time spent learning to trust will help the child learn to develop peer relations and personal relations later in life. Not having the time to learn attachment will inhibit the child as he progresses to adulthood, affecting his every relationship. Homeschooling will allow that time.
In addition, Homeschooling allows for therapy appointments, and family bonding that may otherwise not happen due to the attachment disorder and the distances involved in traveling for therapy while trying to maintain acceptable attendance in school. Karen Zilberstein writes in her article "Neurocognitive Considerations in the Treatment of Attachment and Complex Trauma in Children" that "In addition to more normative treatments for attachment and trauma, numerous repetitions of positive relationships and rhythmic activities (e.g. dancing, drumming, movement, massage, EMDR) are needed to stimulate and reorganize brain systems implicated in emotional regulation.? (2013, pg. 341) Play as therapy can help access memories that have been stored in a variety of forms, including affective, behavioral and visual, and some therapists are beginning to propose that even preverbal memories may be accessed and perhaps even discussed using these methods.
