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, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Feed with Love and Respect'
Attached During the Holiday
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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
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
Does Attachment Parenting Pertain To Me?
September 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Practice Positive Discipline · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting · Principles · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity · Siblings · Strive for Balance · Use Nurturing Touch
Who Says Kids Don’t Like Curry?
September 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The first time a friend offered Violet a veggie “puff,” I was puzzled. ”They’re healthy,” she explained. “They’re made from vegetables.” Why not, I wondered, just give her the actual vegetables instead?
Western culture has an unfortunate tendency toward dumbing-down food for kids. Whether it’s for the sake of convenience, or the mistaken assumption that kids won’t [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, & Parenting
Getting Dad into the Game
September 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
I often hear new moms tell me they are pumping so that dad can give the new baby a bottle. Over and over I hear that they want dad to feel involved and feeding an infant a bottle is just the way to do it.
As the mother of four, this seems redundant to me. My [...]
Tags: Feed with Love and Respect · Principles · Respond with Sensitivity · Siblings · Use Nurturing Touch
Up all night!
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Tags: Engage in Nighttime Parenting · Feed with Love and Respect · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity
Cobathing
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Bath time in our house is a social event. Since becoming the parents of a demanding toddler (armed with a growing vocabulary), my husband and I can hardly remember the days when taking a shower added up to a) showering alone, and b) getting in, washing up, and getting out.
In our childhood, my husband and [...]
Tags: Adoption · Feed with Love and Respect · Provide Consistent & Loving Care · Respond with Sensitivity · Siblings · Strive for Balance · Use Nurturing Touch



