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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So why do women only get 1 year of leave? Why not 5? 16? 18? Why not pay them to stay home their entire life. To suggest a year of maternity leave it to keep away from the working world is absolutely ridiculous, and the strangest statement I've heard.
Have you read the 'optional' part of my posts? or are you just blinded by your own bias against SAH and prejudices against canada?
Canada has over 30mil people. Lets assume that half are women (15mil) and half of those are moms with kids at home (7.5mil). So there are 7.5 million women being forced out of working so that they can stay at home?
Thats a very sad assumption on your part.
If it's a sociological study that involves only people from a particular country, naturally the results are going to only be applicable to that country. If it's a biological study involving, say, the behaviour of a particular IFAP protein during the cell cycle in a Chinese Hamster Ovary cell line, it really doesn't matter a scrap whether the research was conducted in the U.K., the U.S. or Timbuktoo...as long as internationally recognized protocols were followed. Since the study in question involved the components of formula, I can't for the life of me understand how the results of the study could possibly be influenced by the location (again, assuming that internationally recognized protocols were followed).
I see that you didn't choose to address my last paragraph.....
"I see that you didn't choose to address my last paragraph....."
I've posted a few times that this was all optional and she hasn't addressed that either. Its almost as if she sees what she wants and will ignore facts that might poke holes in her very strange theories.
I've been holding back posting to threads of topics that i might offer any insight or debate on. But now this has gone too far. She's clearly biased against SAH, and now Canada. I dont know if she thinks we're inferior, but to describe canada as opressing Working moms is ridicilous. I can't be a part of a board with such prejudices... Why would I want to subject myself to her superiority complex?
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