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 is that unreasonable? Are there certain studies you will not accept? Do you always stop after reading one study? It's like going for a second opinion with a doctor. Why should I make a judgement on *one* study that I have read?
You're being a bit unreasonable.
Forgive me because I don't remember, but who did this study?
BTW, thanks for the compliment.
"When I am considering how seriously to take the results of a study, I would certainly take into account who funded the study, what the research protocol was, how large the sample was, whether the publication is in a peer-reviewed journal, all kinds of factors. But not accepting the results of a study because its authors were Canadian or because it was published in a Canadian Journal? Where's the logic there? It's like saying "I prefer to read journals with red covers, not blue ones. Until you give me a study published in a journal with a red cover, I won't accept its results.""
Okay, back up. The poster posted this "study" with no link. It referred to itself as The Canadian Study. There was none of that info in this study. With the information that was posted, I would not accept that information. Would you?
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