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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Last month, my son received an award in school.  Something I really like is that his school gives out character awards as opposed to academic awards.  The award my son received was for demonstrating respect.
Of course as his mom, I was very teary and sniffly and proud as could be during the awards assembly.   [...]

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Nighttime has confronted us with some of the most challenging parenting moments we’ve faced so far, but being present for our now 14 month old daughter at three in the morning is just as important as it is at any more reasonable hour. Though it isn’t always as easy, or as pleasant, as engaging her [...]

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My kids are not babies.  They sleep in their own rooms.  They don’t breastfeed.  If I wore them in a carrier, the sling would rip and my spine would snap. They have homework.
Does attachment parenting still pertain to me?
Sometimes it seems as though the API principles are geared mainly toward babies and toddlers: have the [...]

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During the past four years of my attachment parenting journey, I sometimes find myself in situations, especially with regard to discipline, that require me to step outside the box and out of my comfort zone.
A few months ago I was trying to get Ava, almost 4 years old at the time, to sleep. She had [...]

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This summer my boys (4-1/2 and 2 years old) and I had the opportunity to play with a wonderful game titled “Feeleez”, from the Natural Parenting Center. The game was so much fun and appropriate for AP families that I wanted to share my thoughts about it with you.
Anxiously we opened the small metal box, [...]

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Excuse me if this post is rambling, it’s written by a very tired mammy. One who only went to bed at half 4 this morning and who got up again at 9. But it’s nowhere near the sheer exhaustion I remember from the first few weeks of Littlepixie’s life, this is just regular tiredness, I [...]

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Originally posted on May 25, 2008 on Crunchy Domestic Goddess
When I became pregnant with my son, my daughter Ava was about 20 months old and still nursing regularly. While I had friends who’s children had self-weaned when they became pregnant, I had my doubts that my “na-na”-loving kid would consider weaning for a second, even [...]

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