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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Myself included - I FF my first after a few short weeks. I'm not tapping into mommy guilt, but I am going to debate any poster who says that formula is not sub-standard. It's simply not true.
"This is just my personal opinion but I am a very honest person. I just could not see past whipping out my breast and putting it in my baby's mouth. It's hard to explain and maybe it's how I was raised but I didn't need to do any research on it because I know I could have never done it."
Just as some moms who bf see a bottle as a very unnatural way to feed a child. It doesn't make us militant bf'ers, just more primitive perhaps, or more accepting of our bodies' nurturing capabilities. Tied to Mother Earth or something. :)
I could never have exclusively breastfed because I would have come to resent being tied to my child around the clock.
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