attachment parenting
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| Mon, 08-14-2006 - 3:17pm |
A woman I know (I used to work with her dh) practices "attachment parenting". Here is a definition (for those who don't know what it is):
"Attachment Parenting includes respecting your child's needs, feeding on demand, and answering your baby's cries. Other parts of Attachment Parenting include co-sleeping, nursing on demand, sling or other baby carrier wearing, and cloth diapering. Not all Attachment Parents practice all of the above, but never the less love the idea of Attachment Parenting and comforting their children.
Attachment parenting uses mild discipline methods and avoids all physical or emotional punishment, such as inflicting shame on a child for inappropriate behavior. Children are encouraged and allowed to sleep with their parents, and you treat your bed as the family bed. Meeting your child's needs according to the child's time frame during the early years of development is an essential part of attachment parenting. Children will be allowed to grow and learn at their own pace and not according to standard time frames."
What do you all think of attachment parenting?
I don't see attachment parenting as something a WOH parent could do, or could they? What do u think?
I am also curious to see if SAHPs vs/ WOHPs will have different opionions on this topic.
If anyone here practices attachment parenting - was your decision to do so closely linked with your decision to be a SAHP?
josee

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My breast is part of ME and it's not the only part of me he is attached to. My breast provides nutrients to him that he could not get from a teddy bear. It also has calming hormones that helped to immediately calm my son down - something he also couldn't get from a teddy bear. Also, teddy bears get lost, misplaced, etc. Unless something tragic happens, Mom will be around.
So you're claiming that you could, with words and cuddling and a teddy bear, calm down a hysterical 1 year old within 10 seconds or immediately?
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I could calm my children down (to be honest I didn't time it)when they weren't hungry without using my breast. Yes no problem at all.
"So, again, how are most mothers in the US drug abusers?"
Where did I ever say that most mothers in the US are drug abusers??
I believe I said I try to be discreet...let's see, I already told the story about when in a very public place (the hospital) I nursed him in front of doctors, nurses, orderlies, other patients and their parents. I have no issue nursing in public, but I try to be modest about it.
In the one specific hypothetical scenerio you mentioned I think it would take anyone (except for mbanc who can soothe her kids immediately with no "tools") more than 10 seconds to calm their kids down.
I just don't understand why people think it's a problem to breastfeed for comfort, given the studies that have been done which prove it works (not to mention the overpowering anecdotal evidence).
There were many infants seperated from their mothers' during Hurricane Katrina, what, do you suppose, were they fed during that seperation? *GASP*...FORMULA!!!! Had it not been for formula, these babies were have starved to death."
Youve missed the point entirely. Point is, if there is poluted water, and no access to formula, formula fed babies are in dire straits. If there is no water, and no access to formula, bf babies are fine. If they are separated from their moms and picked up by authorities they can *always* get formula. Its as easy to get as fast food and not much better.
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