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.
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For the months of January and February we will be discussing the book The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett. Did you hear her teleseminar titled “I adore my kids… so why am I so unhappy?” Making Sense of Parental Depression with Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett? Consider our book discussion to be an extended discussion of this teleseminar inside our forum or Yahoo Group. The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood is for any mom who is coping with stresses and difficulties of being a mother in our modern world. It celebrates the importance of this most demanding role and offers specific advice on how you can cope with the challenges and make positive changes in your life.”
Join us in the discussion at the forums or through our Yahoo Group.
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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