Attachment Parenting
Look. We are a co-sleeping, baby-wearing, long-term-nursing sort of family here. Attachment parenting a toddler is a little more nebulous, but I like to think that I am doing a fairly good job of staying connected to Clara, despite all the crazy stuff that’s happened over the last year.
Last week, I was asked if I would be willing to spread the word about some changes over at Attachment Parenting International. I went and checked it out, and I am excited to share this information with you. If you are at all interested in staying connected to your kids with this style of parenting, I hope you will go check it out. I am thinking of taking a class on the 3-5 year old age group to get some ideas and perspective on some of the challenges of this age…
Here is the press release info:
Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit organization that promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents, has several exciting changes they would like to announce, including:
- A newly redesigned web site and new logo at Attachment Parenting.org;
- Attachment parenting worldwide support forums;
- Parent Education Program - a comprehensive series of classes for every stage and age of child development from infancy through adulthood;
- A new book based on API’s Eight Principles of Attachment Parenting by API co-founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson which is expected to be available this summer;
- A series of podcasts, webinars, chats, and forums with API Advisory Board members and other supporters of AP. Future events are scheduled with Dr. Bob Sears, Dr. James McKenna, and Kathleen Kendall Tacket. Check out the events page for more information.
These are just a few of many exciting things going on at API. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out for yourself.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:46 am
hi..
nice post..
thanks for furnishing me me with above information…
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:55 pm
thanks for the info!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I will be checking this out! I have always considered myself a mix of a bunch of parenting styles…We have definitely been more AP with Riley…I like to gather info from a bunch of resources/classes and then apply it to our family, making it ours. Thank you!
April 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
With Pea, I was really into AP and had read a zillion books, but as with many first-time moms, the pressure I put on myself was insane and eventually I decided not to label what we were doing. We did co-sleep with her for the first four months but we didn’t co-sleep with Coco. I wish we had, but my husband was never really on-board with it, so for the first month or so of her life, I slept on the couch with her on my chest. It was amazing. But we are all about the breast-feeding and the baby-wearing! Love the theory behind AP. Thanks for the link.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
That’s an interesting and informative post. I did not know much about attachment parenting. Thanks for the great post.