Early stress in life can lead to depression, among other health issues.

From a Pharmacy Continuing Education resource discussing the link between diabetes and depression:

Early-life stress can result in persistent neuroendocrine, physiologic, behavioral, and psychologic changes that negatively affect the development of brain systems involved in learning, motivation, and stress response, and that may also reflect a biologic priming for the development of depression, especially with additional stress exposure.

One of the most common and persistent early life stressors that’s considered the status quo these days - daycare for babies. Even the most liberal Muslim scholar I can think of called this institution a prison.

During the first 3 years of life, the brain of a child is developing at a pace that is unfathomable during the first 3 years, with 1 million new neural connections each second and with nearly 1,000 trillion connections by age 3.

Yes, you read that correctly.

They need a minimally stressful environment in order to gain the functionality and cognitive ability to deal with real stress when they get older. Having that proper brain development with the mother as the nurturer, the comforter, the provider of nutrition, the soother, and overall calmness, and of so many other benefits, automatically lead to children becoming more confident and testing boundaries as they get older. For some reason however, we have been duped into trying to accelerate the independent and confidence boosting stage in kids right at 6 weeks from birth, causing the exact opposite effect.

Your child needs pampering, before your child becomes a hero.

Your child needs to be babied, before your child becomes a mentor.

Your child needs comfort, before your child gains confidence.

Your child needs to feel their mother’s touch and presence, before your child can help others.

Remember this - Trying to turn your child into an adult early on, will make them a child as an adult later on.