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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God, for reasons known only to God, did create lots of creatures without the ability to reject his will for them. They act by "instinct," not free will. But then, he decided to be a God who takes chances, and create someone/some class of beings "in his own image," which means, with the freedom to decide to reject him or accept him. He created mankind.
The process is replicated everytime a human couple decides to have a baby or allow one to be born. We know more or less how we want that child to turn out, but it doesn't always work that way. We do it anyway. And sometimes, what the child becomes, for good or ill, surprises even the parents (or the Creator!)
I was taught that whatever happens is the will of God. even our choices, which
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
"If God is truely all powerful, he could have created a mankind that would not have rejected God no?"
Sure, but then you have puppets, not humanity. The ability to choose makes the relationship more precious.
Would you rather have someone love you because he/she chose to, or because he/she was constrained to?
Debatable or not, there actually is an effect of taking some farm land out of production. You create demand and avoid a situation where supply out strips demand. While you can debate whether it's good or bad, you can clearly see the impact such a program has.
What are the clear results of SAH vs WOH that can be debated as bad or good? There are none. SAH does not cause X which can be debated as good or bad as taking farm land out of production causes demand to outstrip supply which can be debated as being good or bad. There is a clear consequence to the action of taking farm land out of production. What is the clear consequence of mom SAH over mom WOH?
Edited 8/28/2006 5:24 pm ET by kbmammm
And Sweden doesn't pay for parental leave because because they view working with children of whatever age a bad thing. Heck, they don't even specify when one has to take the leave, they just hand the parents the parental leave days and tell them to have some fun extra time off any time they please for the next 8 years.
Sweden is basically just interested in rewarding people who choose to have kids. The rewards are both extra money and extra vacation time. The government does this because it is desperate to raise the overall birth rate, regardless of whether every last mom WOH or not.
I could just as easily argue that the U.S. clearly aims to keep women at home as much as possible considering the tax disincentives for families with two incomes and a social security system that allows SAHMs to collect money they've never earned.
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