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Engage in Nighttime Parenting

API’s Use Nurturing Touch and Safe Sleep Blog Carnival

June 18, 2010

Welcome to the latest installment of the Attachment Parenting International Principles of Parenting blog carnival. This month’s carnival will cover API’s 4th and 5th Principles of Parenting – Use Nurturing Touch and Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally. If you’re interested in participating in a future carnival, please visit the API Blog Carnival Schedule for [...]

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Settling the Cosleeping Controversy with Dr. James McKenna

June 15, 2010

Register now for API’s next teleseminar – Settling the Cosleeping Controversy: Get the Facts About Cosleeping, SIDS, Bedsharing and Breastfeeding with special guest Dr. James McKenna.

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Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally Blog Carnival Deadline is Friday

June 8, 2010

The deadline for the next Attachment Parenting International Principles of Parenting Blog Carnival is this Friday, June 11. The theme for this month is Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally. Here is an excerpt from API’s 5th Principle of Parenting: Parents can help their children learn that bedtime or naptime is a peaceful time; a [...]

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It’s Not Personal

June 7, 2010

Recently, I was reading a piece in a magazine by a woman whose husband had left her for another woman. She was coping with the betrayal, in part, by repeating the phrase, “There is nothing personal going on here.” It sounds crazy, but realizing that the problem wasn’t her, it was her husband’s own drama, [...]

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Bedtime Conversations

May 25, 2010

Elia went to a 4-year-old friend’s princess-themed birthday party yesterday.  As you can imagine, it was very exciting.  The girls were to arrive dressed up in their best princess dress, and at the party would get their hair & make up done, craft fairy wands, make jewelry and have a tea party.  Elia was dressed [...]

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Spring Mini Series Installment #2 – Baby Training and Sleep

May 4, 2010

My dad always used to say “dead man don’t need no sleep” and we would all laugh. We would laugh because we did not yet understand the depth of those words. Parenting is not a literal death but it is definitely dying to oneself in a whole new way and in hardly any other way [...]

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She’s Sleeping in Her Own Room Now

April 21, 2010

My daughter is six and guess where she is sleeping now? In her own room. That’s right, babies who cosleep grow up into young children who cosleep but don’t always turn into high school students that still need the comfort provided by sleeping in your room. When my son began cosleeping I heard many people [...]

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Trust Yourself, Trust Your Child, When It Comes to Cosleeping

April 5, 2010

I remember thinking the same thing many of you are thinking, “When will this baby (or child) sleep through the night? Am I doing something wrong by cosleeping?” Just like you, I was criticized by anyone who knew I coslept – family, friends, doctors. I even had one doctor tell me that every child he [...]

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