attachment parenting
Find a Conversation
| 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

Pages
ITA. We love to go to Sunday breakfast as a family after church. We love to gather with family and have meals together. We laugh and talk.
However, comfort eating can be dangerous. I used to be a comfort eater and gained weight. Eating out of depression is not a good thing.
I want my kids to see the time spent together as comforting, not the actual food. If that makes any sense..lol!
No, but I think you are confusing the issue. Nothing comforting about Thanksgiving dinner. What is comforting is my family all being together. If my family decided that Thanksgiving should be Hot dogs and potato chips so be it. Who really cares what is on the table as long as the family is having a good time and spending time together?
Let me put it to you how you put it to me. How would you feel if you had a huge Thanksgiving dinner and all the trimmings, and no one in your family was there? How much comfort are you having there?
Pages