Welcome to Attachment Parenting International

API offers parenting information and support through API Support Groups around the world, information found on this website, and through the API Forum where you can read and post on parenting topics and connect with AP families in your community.

On the API Website: read the API Principles, browse articles and FAQs by topic, read parent posts on the API Speaks blog, become a member of API and receive The Attached Family Magazine, sign up for API's free enewsletters, learn how to start a Support Group and become an accredited Leader, check out AP news and events, join the book club API Reads, attend an API Live Teleseminar, and find an AP Professional.

Support API: Shop in the API Store and API Marketplace, make a donation, advertise with API, get involved with AP Month, become active in API's social networking, and volunteer on a project or ongoing role to help us serve families.

API Live! August 30 - The Truth about Spanking: What Parents Must Know about Physical Discipline

with special guest Nadine Block

Register for this call to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk with Nadine Block about:

  • the practice and effect of spanking on cognitive and physical well-being
  • the confusion surrounding spanking and good behavior
  • how our own childhood experience drives our decision to spank or not
  • what to do if your spouse and you disagree on spanking and more

Register Now!

API Live! on Attachment Parenting with special guest Mayim Bialik

Available for purchase now

Download this call to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and API cofounder Barbara Nicholson talk with attachment parenting mother of two and actress Mayim Bialik.

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You won't believe how important parent support is...

...until you read it. You can. See what parents have to say. You can be the cause of even more ripples with API.

Help us sustain this impact and create more stories by making a financial contribution to API today.

API Online Auction coming this October

A new way you can support AP Month starting now!

Crafty? Artistic? Unique item to offer? AP-friendly company?

API welcomes your talents and generosity for a new online Auction event. Donate your product between now and September 30 and support API's mission. Gain attention by thousands of shoppers. Bidding runs during October 2010.

Donate Items now!

Questions? Contact auction@attachmentparenting.org

TheAttachedFamily.com is now available to the public without a login. Why? Well, we couldn't keep up with the password! Seriously, though... Originally, the online magazine was created to economically expand the information provided to API members. However, what we've found is that the online magazine has become such a great resource that we felt we just had to share it with everyone. We hope you enjoy it and that you consider joining API to receive the quarterly print magazine for exclusive articles, or giving a donation to API to continue this service.

API Live! Separation Anxiety – Your Child's and Yours, with Elizabeth Pantley

Purchase Now!

Purchase this call to hear hosts Lu Hanessian and our own API cofounders talk with Elizabeth Pantley, author of The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution: Gentle Ways to Make Good-Bye Easy from Six Months to Six Years.

API Founders Ready for TV

Unfortunately, API doesn't meet the criteria for Oprah's programming search, but we'd still like your help in sharing our important message about evidence based parenting information support. We think the medium of TV suits the cofounders well - don't you? Please comment and share the link.

August Membership Special

Become a member today and receive Jan Hunt's MP3 for FREE along with continued FREE viewing of our amazing electronic version of The Attached Family.

API Reads

Don't miss Baby Bond by Dr. Linda Palmer. The book can be found in the API Store. Come join us!

Click the image. Take the plunge. Start a ripple.

Martha Sears started a ripple

"Especially once you came along, Hayden, having three older ones and a new baby, I wish I had known..." and because of Martha Sears we do know and share the message of parent support.

Dr. Jay Gordon made some waves

"My first association with Attachment Parenting was with Dr. Paul Fleiss and all his really wonderful families, how they had the babies, how they weren't separated from the babies once they were born, how they brought the babies home, how they wore their babies, how they slept with their babies. It was all so incredibly antithetical to what we had learned about in Pediatric Residency. Read more...

API Welcomes Martha Sears to Board of Directors

API is pleased to announce its newest Board Director, co-author of numerous Sears Parenting Library books and longtime API advisor Martha Sears. Sears is the co-author of 25 books, drawing on 18 years of breastfeeding experience including a child with special needs and an adoption, and is a frequent guest speaker. She is the mother of eight children and a founder of AskDrSears.com with her husband Dr. Bill Sears and sons Drs. Jim and Bob Sears. Welcome, Martha!

API Welcomes Judy Arnall to Resource Advisory Council

API is pleased to announce its newest Resource Advisory Council member, API contributing author and best-selling author of Discipline Without Distress Judy Arnall. Arnall is founder and director of Calgary-based Attachment Parenting Canada Association. She is the mother of five children and a parent educator. Welcome, Judy!

API Volunteers

Become an API volunteer: API has volunteer openings in communications, advertising sales, and more. Please contact volunteers@attachmentparenting.org.

Your API story can help other families. How has API made a difference? Take the API survey and tell us YOUR story today!

Attached at the Heart

ForeWord Book Review

"The book is written for well-educated readers and professionals. It should be required reading for daycare owners, social workers, and members of the judicial system. A simplified version would be worthwhile for parents who could benefit from the tips and message without the academic documentation. The book's advice is empowering and, if followed, could lead to a better world."

Read the entire review (PDF) or buy the book today!

Visit the AATH Website