Attachment Parenting Babies are Raised the Way Nature Intended The 7 Baby B’s Attachment parenting is a style of caring for your infant that brings out the best in the baby and the parents. Learn how attachment parenting babies grow up happier and healthier with these 7 practices. 1. Birth bonding The way baby and […]
Attachment Parenting Fathering
Attachment Parenting for Fathers Attachment parenting is a big commitment, one that should not be made by mothers only. Babies need loving responses from Dad, too, along with the special comfort and fun only a father can provide. Fathers also help to nurture their babies by loving and supporting their wives. Attachment parenting does not […]
7 Benefits of Attachment Parenting
Benefits of Attachment Parenting for the Entire Family Attachment parenting offers so many wonderful benefits for not just mother and baby, but the whole family. 1. Mutual Giving The more you give to your baby the more baby gives back to you. Small and quiet moments of pure joy when your baby smiles at you […]
Attachment Parenting and High-needs Baby: Cause or Effect?
Does Attachment Parenting Result in a High-needs Baby? Do we do attachment parenting because our babies are high need? Or are our babies high need because we do attachment parenting, so we let them be themselves and showing all their needs? So many times, I hear “easy baby” stories. I wonder whether I had chosen […]
4 Ways Attachment Parenting Can Reduce the Risk of SIDS
Attachment Parenting to Reduce SIDS The most plausible explanation for SIDS, in most babies, is a defect in cardiorespiratory control and arousability during sleep. Also, research suggests that some infants at risk for SIDS have less-organized physiological control mechanisms. So, any parenting style that can enhance the development of a baby’s physiological control systems and […]
I Don’t Understand Attachment Parenting
“I don’t understand the Attachment Parenting concept. My sister follows your books. I am very concerned about the fact that she will not leave her 7-month-old son with our parents. Do you feel that there should be a bond with grandparents? My parents are very upset about this. I feel for his father, as there […]
Failure to Thrive Infant
Helping the Failure to Thrive Infant Throughout our 30 years of working with parents and babies, we have grown to appreciate the correlation between baby growth (emotionally and physically) and the style of parenting they receive. We have noticed that failure to thrive in infants is often simply cured by more parental nurturing. Keep Baby Thriving: […]
Attachment Parenting Explained
What Attachment Parenting is Not Attachment parenting gets discussed as a new theory on parenting when it is really doing what feels natural for parents and baby. Attachment parenting is loving and attentive parenting but is nothing close to spoiling a child. The idea behind attachment parenting is that you get to intimately understand your […]
Observations on Attachment Parenting Outcomes
Attachment Parenting Outcomes The Baby B’s translate into the Childhood C’s when we examine the Attachment Parenting outcomes. Important Note: Parents should not take all the credit or all the blame for the person their child later becomes. You do your best to raise your children with all the tools and resources you have at […]
Attachment Parenting Chemistry
Attachment Parenting Chemistry of Mom and Baby Attachment Parenting Releases feel-good Hormones Attachment parenting chemistry shows that good things happen to the hormones of mothers and babies who are attached. Hormones regulate the body’s systems and help them react to the environment. One of these hormones is cortisol. Produced by the adrenal glands, one of […]
10 Ways Attachment Parenting Discipline is Easier
Attachment Parenting Discipline is Easier You probably never thought of these attachment tools, such as breastfeeding and babywearing, as being acts of discipline, but they are. Gina, an attached mother of three, told us: “Knowing my children empowers me.” This kid knowledge becomes like a sixth sense enabling you to anticipate and control situations to […]
Growing Up Connected
Behaviors and Competencies Connected Kids Unconnected Kids Behavior as infants and toddlers Secure, settled, trusting, interdependent, inner sense of well-being, learn early how people treat other people Clingy, anxious, distant, angry, dependent, disorganized, impulsive Obedience Open to redirection, expect to behave, want to please, feel guided Closed: protest redirection; oppositional, devious, defensive: don’t know what […]