attachment parenting

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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: 03-27-2003
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:09pm
It actually makes you ignorant of how research is conducted. The protocols for how research may be conducted in order to be accepted by the scientific community are international. Canadians and Americans must adhere to the same research protocols. There is no fundamental difference between how Canadians, Americans, and any other scientist does research and so also no difference in the reliability of the results.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:09pm

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.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:10pm
No, it won't. And a lot of women manage to stay off drugs for awhile while they are pregnant, or even give them up permanently for the baby's sake, to their credit. But the percentage of babies born addicted or influenced by maternal drug use is probaby a fairly good predictor of the frequency of drug addiction among child-bearing women in a given population.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:12pm

Forgive me because I don't remember, but who did this study?

BTW, thanks for the compliment.

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:13pm
No that it was from Canada and it was 14 yrs old.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:16pm
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."
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 1:24pm

"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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Registered: 08-27-2005
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 2:00pm
Science is an international endeavour. A piece of research could be published in a European journal; and done by, for example, German, Chinese, American and Indian postdocs in an American lab. Where or by whom the research is published is completely irrelevant to the quality of the research as long as it has passed peer review. I honestly cannot for the life of me comprehend dismissing a peer-reviewed paper simply because it happens to be a Canadian study on an American product. It seems completely irrational.
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Registered: 08-27-2005
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 2:08pm
The only reason you gave for dismissing the study is that it's a Canadian study of an American product. The other grounds that Lois listed for considering whether a study is worth taking seriously or not are reasonable grounds. Arguing that a study is not worth considering simply because it's Canadian is an unreasonable ground for dismissing a study. Moreover, many older studies can still be considered perfectly valid. It depends on how well the study was conducted. There are studies 10+ years or older that are still considered important and ground-breaking despite the fact that they were conducted some time ago.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 08-25-2006 - 2:18pm
Obviously, you don't usually read research papers. That's totally alright. I probably wouldn't either if it weren't part of what I do for a living. If you don't know what is involved in doing a rigorous/excellent study, then you don't know how to evaluate what is a good study and what is not. You just have to take the words of people like Lois who know what they are talking about on this topic.

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