The New York Times’ Perri Klass delves into Why a Baby’s Connection with a Parent Matters in a bid to elucidate the importance of attachment on children. The article, published on June 26, 2017, covers several patterns of attachment and explains how most of these patterns affect the development of a child and even their adulthood. Borrowing John Bowlby’s attachment theory, Klass (2017) synthesizes findings from different researchers with a view to supporting her arguments. The article notes that, before John Bowlby’s experiment and findings, researchers merely believed that the actions of parents at home impacted behaviour of children in a strange situation, before Bowlby’s findings clarified the situation. The major takeaway from the article, however, is that the minds of children are flexible or plastic unless they are faced with extreme situations or exposed to extreme environments. When faced with extreme environments, their reactions can be unprecedented. As such, Perri Klass concludes that well-adjusted and socially-competent children are those who were securely attached to their parents mostly during their second year. Children, as they grow up, are faced with a variety of strange situations away from their parents, but what matters is the knowledge that they will come back to their parents for comfort. Attachment, according to Perri Klass, and most researchers, provides a feeling of security for children who drift away from their parents to explore their environments and the world at large.