Comments on: Attachment Parenting Makes the Holidays Easier http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/2009/12/01/attachment-parenting-makes-the-holidays-easier/ Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Positive Holiday Discipline | Attachment Parenting International Blog http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/2009/12/01/attachment-parenting-makes-the-holidays-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-3606 Positive Holiday Discipline | Attachment Parenting International Blog Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:03:33 +0000 http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/?p=1824#comment-3606 [...] Christmas can also be a tricky season as far as discipline goes. Come on now, I know that you know what I am talking about. There are presents stacked under the tree, there are cookies and sweets everywhere, there is family, noise, and activity.  It is very hard to stay disciplined during this season and it is the same for our children. I am struggling with trying to keep my son from eating too many cookies and not enough real food, but I am not going to kid myself, he is not the only one struggling to keep his hands out of the cookie jar! He is very much in the toddler picky stage and right now all he wants are cookies. So what is the solution? A less sugared, healthy choice of a cookie! We have made no-bake peanut butter fingers with powdered milk, organic peanut butter and a bit of honey along with coconut and raisins or whatever other kind of fruit we feel like adding.  This makes for a great protein-packed, lower-sugar option. Muffins are also another great choice! Make them as healthy and sugar-free as possible and don’t skimp on the sweet goodness of added dried fruits! I am not refusing to let my son enjoy the Holiday sweetness but am finding creative ways to minimize the sugar highs. [...] [...] Christmas can also be a tricky season as far as discipline goes. Come on now, I know that you know what I am talking about. There are presents stacked under the tree, there are cookies and sweets everywhere, there is family, noise, and activity.  It is very hard to stay disciplined during this season and it is the same for our children. I am struggling with trying to keep my son from eating too many cookies and not enough real food, but I am not going to kid myself, he is not the only one struggling to keep his hands out of the cookie jar! He is very much in the toddler picky stage and right now all he wants are cookies. So what is the solution? A less sugared, healthy choice of a cookie! We have made no-bake peanut butter fingers with powdered milk, organic peanut butter and a bit of honey along with coconut and raisins or whatever other kind of fruit we feel like adding.  This makes for a great protein-packed, lower-sugar option. Muffins are also another great choice! Make them as healthy and sugar-free as possible and don’t skimp on the sweet goodness of added dried fruits! I am not refusing to let my son enjoy the Holiday sweetness but am finding creative ways to minimize the sugar highs. [...]

]]> By: Rita http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/2009/12/01/attachment-parenting-makes-the-holidays-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-3541 Rita Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:46:28 +0000 http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/?p=1824#comment-3541 Cosleeping has always made traveling easier for my family. It's so easy to find a room at our parents' homes when all we need is one bed, instead of one for each of us. When my kids were babies, breastfeeding made things a ton easier than bottle feeding -- although not so much on the way there and you need to breastfeed but you're in a cramped car and you have to bring baby from the back to the front and it's 4 degrees outside. But certainly once we were at our destination. Now that my kids are older, I really see the benefits of AP. Through feeding with love and respect in that I have taught them how to limit sugar, we don't have hyper kids filled up with Christmas candy. Through responding with sensitivity and positive discipline, where we've modeled to our kids how to resolve conflict, we don't have to do nearly as much policing as some parents as our kids are just behaving the way we've taught them. But I do have to say that my #1 benefit has always been cosleeping! Cosleeping has always made traveling easier for my family. It’s so easy to find a room at our parents’ homes when all we need is one bed, instead of one for each of us.

When my kids were babies, breastfeeding made things a ton easier than bottle feeding — although not so much on the way there and you need to breastfeed but you’re in a cramped car and you have to bring baby from the back to the front and it’s 4 degrees outside. But certainly once we were at our destination.

Now that my kids are older, I really see the benefits of AP. Through feeding with love and respect in that I have taught them how to limit sugar, we don’t have hyper kids filled up with Christmas candy. Through responding with sensitivity and positive discipline, where we’ve modeled to our kids how to resolve conflict, we don’t have to do nearly as much policing as some parents as our kids are just behaving the way we’ve taught them.

But I do have to say that my #1 benefit has always been cosleeping!

]]> By: Schussel http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/2009/12/01/attachment-parenting-makes-the-holidays-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-3457 Schussel Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:50:02 +0000 http://attachmentparenting.org/blog/?p=1824#comment-3457 As this is our first christmas with baby, I expect to see the advantages you wrote about, just as in similar situations earlier this year: babywearing and breastfeeding in crowds and during noisy family dinners. And cosleeping does help us a lot when we visit my parents: my son doesn't have problems sleeping in another bed, in unknown places, as long as we are lying right next to him. No sleep problems during those christmas family visits. (There is some envy on my side with regard to your babywearing stash, I have to say.) As this is our first christmas with baby, I expect to see the advantages you wrote about, just as in similar situations earlier this year: babywearing and breastfeeding in crowds and during noisy family dinners. And cosleeping does help us a lot when we visit my parents: my son doesn’t have problems sleeping in another bed, in unknown places, as long as we are lying right next to him. No sleep problems during those christmas family visits.
(There is some envy on my side with regard to your babywearing stash, I have to say.)

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