Your Contributions to API are Vital
- API provides parents with research-based information, tools and support that affirms positive, healthy parenting, and helps parents create the kind of legacy that they can be proud to bequeath to their children: family strength, reduced conflict, feelings of love and being loved, trust and confidence. A legacy of love.
Your generosity allows us to provide parents with opportunities they need to create a positive parenting legacy. Your donation provides parents with current, freely accessible, and widely available parenting information and support that includes Support Group Leader training, printed materials and expanded online programming available to parents 24x7.
Your financial support is critical to API's work and mission and we are thankful for your sustaining gifts.
API Reads to Feature Judy Arnall
Judy Arnall, author of Discipline Without Distress, will be joining the API Reads forum for an interactive discussion from January 19-23, 2009. Access to the API Reads author discussion forum is one of the many benefits of API Membership. For more information on obtaining access to this exclusive discussion session, please visit the API Forums.
What is API Reads? API Reads is an online book club with discussions taking place on the API Forums. The book club is open to any forum member while the author chats are available by individual subscription or as a benefit of API Membership.
API's Safe Infant Sleep Campaign
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Did you know that a recent poll of parents conducted by Parenting magazine indicated that 42% share sleep with their infant at least part of the time? Read more about API's Safe Infant Sleep Campaign. API's Safe Infant Sleep Brochure is now available for download.
The Attached Family Online Magazine Site Redesigned
The Attached Family, a new online magazine for Attachment Parenting families, has been redesigned. In addition to the new look, Editor Rita Brhel has updated the site with several new articles. Access to the articles that appear in The Attached Family online magazine is one of the many benefits that API members receive. For a full list of membership benefits, please visit the API Memberships page.
Ask API Live Archives Available
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If you have missed one of our teleseminars, you can purchase a copy of each of the events in MP3 format: Happiest Parents on the Block with Dr. Harvey Karp, Getting Real with Ourselves - and Our Kids with Peggy O'Mara and The Myth of Perfect Parenting with Martha Sears.
News & Events
- 12/23/08 - API founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker will be speaking at the International Conference on Parent Education and Parenting at the University of North Texas on February 13, 2009.
- 12/19/08 - Out of every 1,000 children born in the state of Tennessee, nine die within the first year. API co-founder Barbara Nicholson speaks on this alarming infant death rate in a Public News Service release.
- 12/9/08 - Author Elizabeth Pantley is participating in an Opposing Views debate - Should Women Breastfeed in Public? For more information on the purpose of this discussion, read this post on the API Forums.

