attachment parenting

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Registered: 02-19-2004
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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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:48pm

"What is really becoming a shock is how many suburban mom's popping pills, and illegal drugs"

Those ones aren't part of the statistics.

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:50pm
Just not likely that they are included in that "3%".
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:53pm
Mick Jagger wasn't dispensing parental advice with that song. He was writing about something he saw, suburban moms popping pills. I posted the reference to the song "Mother's Little Helper" to show that 40 years ago, the very thing you thought was "becoming a shock" was prevalent enough to catch the attention of a band. I'm not surpised that you weren't alive in 1966. Young people often believe that they are witnessing new trends simply because they haven't been alive long enough to know how long a "shocking new trend" has actually been around.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:55pm
Formula has made great strides. It's insulting for BF'ers to try and make FF'ers feel as if they are feeding their children poison. If formula feeding is not for them, then so be it.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:56pm
n/t
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 12:57pm
You said that her argument didn't prove anything and objected that it was a Canadian study, implying that her conclusions and evidence couldn't be accepted because it came from a Canadian study. Your personal preference (prejudice? bias?) aside, you have certainly implied here that the results from the Canadian study are unacceptable simply because it is Canadian.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:01pm
Unacceptable to *me*. With an American product *I'd* rather read an American study. If that makes me prejudiced/biased, I guess that's your call.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:01pm
Many of the statistics to which everyone seems to be referring are statistics based on babies born with illegal drugs in their systems or with neurological or genetic damage characteristic of maternal drug abuse. You don't have to call some number and report yourself. It shows up in the baby, unfortunately.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:06pm
So, what if the mother has a drug habit, kicks it while she's pregnant and then resumes after the baby is born? Will it show up in the baby's system? I doubt it.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:07pm
This has to be among the most unreasonable arguments I have ever read on this or any other I-Village Board -- and I've been reading these boards since before they were part of I-Village. It takes a lot to shock or surprise me these days, but you've done it.

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