Welcome to API Reads!
API Reads is an online book club with discussions taking place on the API Forums and Yahoo Group. The book club is open to any avid book reader who enjoys reading on various Attachment Parenting topics. Our author online interactivity format are available by individual subscription or as a benefit of API Membership.
We have finished reading the book Being There by Dr. Isabelle Fox. This book was focused on the Attachment Parenting Principle of Parenting topic "Providing consistent and loving care" inside your family. If you did not have a chance to read the book, I do encourage you to do so for affirmation of how important it is for our children to be provided consistent care regardless of being a stay-at-home parent or a two-income working family. For the two-income working family, she provides questions to ask the potential caregiver to see if they can provide this as well. She also talks about what options are available to you to prolong being a stay-at-home parent. It is a wonderful affirmation of how attachment in our families are in regards to primary or secondary attachment. Feel free to continue posting your thoughts inside the API Reads forum or Yahoo Group.
We are now starting our annual reading of Attached at the Heart by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker. We will be reading this book for the months of May, June, and July... plenty of time to read and discuss on the API Reads forum or Yahoo Group. Attached at the Heart is a review of the Eight Parenting Principles that help us with our attachment to our families on a day-to-day basis. It also provides resources at the end of each chapter to help further your knowledge and research if a certain chapter/principle speaks to you. You feel as if Barbara and Lysa are talking to you; as if they are there in your front room all cozy, excited with some fuzzy slippers to finish it all off. We hope you enjoy the book and discuss this one as well inside our forum or Yahoo Group. We'll see you online!
Snippets from Previous Conversations...Join in the Discussion!
Interestingly, we've talked to many women over the years who attended natural childbirth classes, yet for various reasons did not have the "perfect birthing" experience that they had wanted. Those women seem to have an easier time dealing with their disappointment than those who wonder what might have happened if they had been more prepared. It seems to be harder on a mother to accept a disappointing or difficult birth when she was not informed enough about the process of labor and delivery, and the doctor was allowed to make all the decisions. We feel strongly that birth is such a transformative and empowering experience that each pregnant mother deserves to have the best information, enabling her to make the best decisions for her and her baby. The critical time to gather this information is well before the birth.
I think this is an excellent book and will be highly recommending it to all our student Parent Coaches. It encapsulates, in a very readable way, a great deal of very significant theory about what children need to thrive.
"Unconditional" is a word I frequently use to describe my parenting style. To me, that falls under the scope of Attachment Parenting, as does "positive"...positive discipline, positive relationships, positive everything. It's interesting to me that in our culture, parenting is very strategic and a business, while in other countries, it just is. It's just a way of life so much so that their language doesn't even have a word for it!
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