As the year turned to 2008, we celebrated New Years at home with our five and a half month old son. This year, we decided to head out to a party with our now 17 month old along. We were invited to a kid-friendly party at a friend’s house and I couldn’t be happier to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Principles'
Ringing in the New Year
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Holidays · Practice Positive Discipline · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Principles · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity · Strive for Balance · Use Nurturing Touch
Patient Parenting
January 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I would like to be a more patient mother and it turns out I’m not the only one! My readers have told me they want to be more patient too and a 1999 York University study commissioned by Today’s Parent found that patience was the top skill parents felt they needed and impatience was the number-one attitude they didn’t want to pass on to their children.Not only is being patient more pleasant for all involved, I also find that it is more effective. If I am impatient, my son tends to dig in his heels and be stubborn and my daughter gets whiny and clingy. But how can we slow down and be more patient?
Tags: General Interest · Respond with Sensitivity · Use Nurturing Touch
Making Babywearing Work For You
December 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
In early November, an ad by the maker’s of Motrin sparked outrage among moms who felt that the ad was insulting to babywearing moms. If you haven’t seen the video, you can view it here.
I’ll just say that I thought the ad was poorly done. Although I wasn’t as offended as some were, the ad [...]
Tags: Uncategorized · Use Nurturing Touch
Attached During the Holiday
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Before I was a parent, December was a time of calm. There were a few office Christmas parties, and a little bit of shopping, but there was nothing frantic about it. We’d drive around to find the best light displays, go see a Christmas movie or two in the theatre, [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Holidays · Practice Positive Discipline · Respond with Sensitivity · Strive for Balance · Uncategorized
AP When Things Are Upside Down
December 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Joy, love, and simplicity are certainly some of the most compelling reasons that our family has chosen to practice Attachment Parenting. AP principles, like keeping our baby close, responding to our children with sensitivity and respect, and engaging in night time parenting have made our lives infinitely sweeter, gentler, and less stressful. So, recently, when [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity · Strive for Balance · Use Nurturing Touch
Weighing in on Breastfeeding in Public
December 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I feel so lucky that I live in a place that is so open to nursing in public. I have never been asked to cover up, given funny looks, or asked to move to the bathroom to nurse my children. But I know so many mothers who are terrified of nursing in public because they [...]
Tags: API News · Feed with Love and Respect · General Interest · Practice Positive Discipline
Attachment Parenting featured on Parents.tv!
December 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Take a look at this wonderful 4 1/2 minute overview of what Attachment Parenting is all about, featuring API’s own, the wonderful Art Yuen:
Tags: API News · General Interest · Principles
Urge President-Elect Obama to support breastfeeding!
December 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
President-Elect Obama has affirmed his commitment to tackling the health care crisis, and the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) is ready to tell him one great way to do so: support breastfeeding!
Citing the numerous studies on the benefits of breastfeeding, USBC states:
Excess health care costs totaling more than $4 billion must be paid by [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect
Share The Milk
December 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
When she was about 14 months old, my daughter decided to give up the bottle, thereby relieving me of the responsibility of pumping milk for her to drink while we were apart . . . and just in time, since my supply had dipped sufficiently in recent months that I was only pumping about half [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect
Nighttime parenting
November 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments
My daughter is almost two years old. I still nurse her to sleep in the sling.Once in the afternoon for a nap and once in the evening.This process takes at least 30 minutes if I’m very lucky,if not more than that. When she falls into deep sleep,I transfer her to the bed.
If you had told [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · General Interest · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · presence



