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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"Why does that throw you for a loop? I am aware that popping a breast in a child's mouth will get them to be quiet, why is it so difficult to believe that other methods work just as quickly?"
We were at the emergency room last night and most of the babies were remarkably quiet. Some had bottles of formula, others had bottles of orange pop, but either seemed to work just as efficiently as nursing (and more efficiently than nursing for an overly modest mom like me who is reluctant to flash a roomful of bored and exhausted strangers).
I'm a big advocate of nursing (if not quite militant!) but after last night I'll certainly concede that bottles seem to be quite effective as comforting mechanisms. On the other hand, a hospital emergency room probably isn't the most sterile environment for bottles (which occasionally dropped on the floor, and the parents also weren't following the time guideline for using formula--one baby drank from an 8 oz. bottle of formula over a period of 6 hours).
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Firstly, I hope that everything is okay, considering you spent awhile in the ER.
Secondly, do you mean a bottle of orange soda??? OMG
And lastly, did you have your eyes attuned to the parents of that child that drank from the same bottle for 6 hours?
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