Psychological Effects Early Socialization in Families with an Employee — Nanny

The specifics of socialization processes in families with an employee (nanny) depend on the interaction between mother, nanny and child. The relationship between mother and child in such families indicates signs of partial maternal deprivation. Mother indirectly contributes to the formation of a reliable attachment between nanny and child by delegating her responsibilities for the care of the baby to the employee. Children raised in such families’ experience difficulties in interacting with their peers in future. Methodologically, we relied on the theory of attachment by J. Bowlby, especially his ideas about “monotropy”, the sensitive period of formation of maternal attachment, the importance of attachment relationships in the cognitive, social and emotional development of a child. In the context of early socialization in a family with an employee (nanny) children develop signs of partial maternal deprivation. This can lead to the peculiarities of the images of the mother and father in the representations of children and manifest themselves in interaction with peers. The psychological effects of early socialization in families with nannies are explained by the action of a complex reason — the mother’s willingness to delegate her duties to the nanny, the style of professional interaction between the nanny and the child, and the peculiarities of the child’s self-attitude.