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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Sure, he was completely isolated from the coversations about Thansgiving dinner, because his family hadn't done that. he didn't even know what that was.
That does not mean that *only* food is important to people, or that we find food more important than people.
I did BF both boys.
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No. I don't think that breasfeeding at that age is telling him that at all. Your core assumption which I believe is incorrect is that the toddler really sees nursing as eating. Although I have no research to back this up but only handfuls of anecdotes, I think unweaned toddlers see nursing and eating as entirely different and unrelated activities (unlike babies who necessarily see them as the same). My anecdotal evidence is from women who related that their toddlers don't nurse when hungry but just eat food and only nurse for comfort. So they've broken the nursing/eating connection that was there as babies and nursing is only for comfort.
Extended breastfeeding could only cause toddlers to equate food with comfort (in an unhealthy, Oprah-ish way, not a holiday meal way) if they equated nursing with eating. And anecdotal evidence says that they don't.
Jennie
Jennie
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