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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there is loads of scripture (jerimiah,john to name a couple) that support God's holiness and supreme self above all ills.........but i think the real proof that God didn't create disease comes from the fault of adam and eve,when original sin was first introduced.
and if you don't believe in scripture but believe disease is part of God's work, you're contradicting yourself. there is so much about the bible that supports why people pray. kwim?
Edited 8/27/2006 9:23 am ET by egd3blessed
Yes and no it's not the same thing. My employer does not allow a return to work for 6 weeks. Since they were telling me I couldn't work, they paid me for that time (just as they would if they had laid me off because it was their decision not mine). My employer considers women who are within 6 weeks post partum to be too ill to work, which is silly IMO. Healthwise, I could have gone back to work at 2 weeks.
An employer requiring what they consider time to physically recover is not the same as a society paying women who are healthy not to work. Those two are miles apart. How can you compare a period of time when an employer considers you too ill to work to a society simply paying healthy workers not to work because they have childern under a certain age?
The point is that they will pay you not to work by choice if you have kids.
Can someone who does not have kids decide to take off a year and get the pay? The conditions they set on getting the pay are telling. If my understanding is correct, they only cover voluntary time off after you have a baby. For whatever reason, they've decided that a parent at home is so important that these funds should be made available to make sure it happens.
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So, if God didn't create disease, who did? Who is the other Creator, that could sully
God's creation so?
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No, I have no idea what you mean. You say that scripture says God didn't create disease, then say I'm contradicting myself by not believing scripture and also believing something different than what scripture says. Sounds to me like I'm pretty consistent there. (Even though, to be accurate, I've never said I don't believe scripture. I have said, many time in other discussions, that I am not a literalist, given that the bible is mostly metaphor) And I have no idea what you mean about the bible supporting why people pray. People in many cultures pray, not just judeo-christian ones. I'm sure their religious texts and traditions support their reasons for prayer, as well.
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So because YOUR health is ok that is how your company should handle it? Not to mention I have never seen a DC center that will take a 2 week old baby. Have you? How much sleep were you getting at 2 weeks after your baby was born? Maybe your company isn't considering just the mother's health but maybe the health of the baby. Not to mention that many mothers that have c sections are not ready to work at 2 weeks.
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