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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Jennie
I was just thinking that. The obesity epidemic stems in part from the fact that people DONT sit down to eat together as much. Too much eating on the run and fast food. People are in such a hurry to eat, half the time they dont think about *what* they are eating, cant remember what they ate over the course of the day, and as a result ingest way more calories than they actually need.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
I've been posting at ivillage for over six years. I had one previous user name, but this one has been here for at least a year. I can't remember when exactly I changed it. Many, many of the posters here know who I am. I've even met several of them IRL.
I don't post on this particular board that often, because there are always the mommy olympic types and trolls who make it such an unpleasant place to post.
If he drinks half a sippy cup at noon and half in the afternoon, that is one sippy cup of milk. I haven't back peddled anything at all. You are looking to start something that just isn't there to be started.
How much milk do you really think an infant needs if it has nursed at 7 am and nurses again at 5:30 pm, plus cluster nurses from about 7:30pm to 10pm or so, and then co-sleeps and nurses a couple of times a night?
She did not post that, someone else was trying to portray her and used a similar username. Which is a violation of TOS and will result in that person getting booted.
Momwriter and cdmamnyell are not the same person.
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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