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Reflection on How Couplehood Changes with Kids

March 1, 2010

It’s 11 at night and I’m preparing for a rare evening with my husband. He’s coming home from a four-hour round trip to pick up a bale of hay for our goats and sheep, and called to say he was stopping to pick up a pizza. I’ve got one kid in bed and the other [...]

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Modeling AP Values

January 28, 2010

I spend a lot of time writing and speaking to people about the values I hold as a person who practices attachment/responsive parenting. I try to use facts and logic to respectfully encourage others to research their parenting decisions and embrace ideas that might have been uncomfortable a generation ago, such as full-term breastfeeding and [...]

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Welcome, Cosleeping Crib-Sleepers!

January 26, 2010

Many of us attached parents understand what it’s like to feel ostracized for our choice in parenting practices. We’re tired of the looks and comments about giving birth without drugs, breastfeeding beyond six months, holding our babies all the time, disciplining without

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Tough Love? No Way, Baby

December 17, 2009

This guest post is in response to a recent Time magazine article. For more information on the article and API’s response, please visit the API Advocates page.

“We’re glad to see you . . . We’re sorry you had to come.”
So says Time Magazine to our newborns, who are biologically wired to seek out responsive [...]

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Doing The “Right” Thing Is Never Easy

November 5, 2009

Baby knows best. Really. They are perhaps not scholars just yet but they do know what they need better than any of us and well, we should listen to them . . . and if we did they would probably say . . . that doing the “right” thing is never easy.
Like when you were [...]

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Seeing API in a Whole New Light

September 3, 2009
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Family at the Center

September 2, 2009

I am sitting in an RV. Again. This is a very common scene. I am surrounded by the sounds of a music festival gearing up. Our community is the grounds crew, as we have been for the past six years. While we are “on the road” my jobs include communications and music, as well as [...]

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Co-sleeping: They Say So Much

August 31, 2009

Next month, she’ll turn 3. And yes, she is still in our bed.
They say she’ll never become independent. They say she’ll never learn to sleep on her own. They say we’ll never get her out of our bed.
They say a lot of things.
But they aren’t there at night, when her heartbeat and mine start beating [...]

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