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Attachment Parenting - Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children by Jennifer Lance Patient Expert

Posted Tue 09 Jun 2009 11:50pm connectedness” to parents and the larger community. Attachment parenting offers a solution, and the founders of Attachment Parenting International Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker have recently published a fantastic book on the subject backed by research. Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children teaches Read on »

If I can't practice traditional "Attachment Parenting" does it mean my child won't be well-attached to me? by Atlanta Mom .. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 10 Sep 2010 4:50am to the attachment parenting group. I thought, well, I wanted to do all the things they list here...and I gave them a shot, so that should count, right? And when they asked, "Where does your... and that I was not an attachment parent by their standards. In hindsight, they were probably right. The reality is that I tend to fall more on the middle of the spectrum when Read on »

Disentangled Attachment and Attachment Parenting by Dr. Polly Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Mon 28 Feb 2011 11:42am Last week two diligent readers alerted me to the same article ostensibly about Attachment Parenting, a blog post by a mommy blogger on The Stir over at Cafemom.com who'd... between the LA Times and The Stir the study got misconstrued. How? Well the study was about attachment (i.e. infant-mother bonding) but not Attachment Parenting. Most people Read on »

Attachment Parenting by BreastFeedingMums .. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 10:30pm Before I became a mum I'd never heard of attachment parenting and it was only after my third child was born that I realised I'd instinctively been practising much of what was involved in it! So what is attachment parenting? Read on »

Attachment Parenting. That's What They Call It These Days. by Lian Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 10:40pm Yesterday was the first time I came across the term "Attachment Parenting". Immediately the image of my children clinging onto my legs wailing "don't leave me" came to my mind. I wondered, do we really want our children to be MORE attached to us? As it turns out, that is not what Attachment Parenting is about. Apparently it's what a majority of us Read on »

Attachment, Parenting and Childhood Mental Illness by Laura Patient Expert

Posted Sun 23 May 2010 6:08am " for our kids Attachment, Parenting and Childhood Mental Illness "I have also seen in my practice that kids who live with psychiatric conditions are not defined by them... improve, sometimes dramatically with the right package of help. And it is the love, trust and security created by the parents - the attachment that my field had formerly so Read on »

October is Attachment Parenting Month! by Michelle H. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 4:20pm October is Attachment Parenting month. Now, what does it mean, exactly, to attachment parent? Well, I’m sure if you ask 10 different people, you will get 10 different answers. To me, attachment parenting means, in general, to respect my child and be available - emotionally and physically - to them all (or 99 percent) of the time. I was recently Read on »

a must-read article for those who practice attachment parenting by Karen .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 27 Jan 2010 2:32pm I so wish I had the benefit of a perspective like this when my kids were little! This profound wisdom from Patty Wipfler, the founder of Hand in Hand Parenting, might have made weaning so much easier:http://www.handinhandparenting.org/csArticles/articles/000000/000034.htm Actually, all of my parenting could have been so much easier if I had Read on »

Attachment parenting by MC Milker Healthy Living Professional

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:44am on to Attachment Parenting. I must digress a minute and tell you that my crunchy best friend was anything but crunchy when we first met and through at least 10 years of our freindship. Then she moved to San Francisco, took up yoga and joined the crunchy crowd. I resisted for many years, but, after she turned me on to attachment parenting, I began to give Read on »

Attachment Parenting Discussion: My Two Cents by Leticia V. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 6:31pm ) have been having an intense discussion online about Attachment Parenting, which I will refer to as AP. They mean Dr William Sears' approach, which is also from La Leche League... to Attachment Parenting in an email, so I'm posting it here. So many times, something in my live corresponds with this blog, I can't help but feel God's hand in all this. I w Read on »