Time for some clarification and a reality check about why attachment parenting is for everyone!
Do AP parents work? Do AP parents get any sleep? Do they have sex? Do you have to practice all the principles to be AP? Isn’t AP just babywearing, breastfeeding and bedsharing? Do your children rule the home? Aren’t AP parents judgmental? Is the baby literally physically attached all the time? Do the children breastfeed until they’re 5, 6, 7…? Do Attachment Parents never go out or have personal time?
Interesting interpretations about Attachment Parenting are filling blog posts, news sites and comment threads. From professionals to media, it’s not just parents who are discussing Attachment Parenting. API responds here: What is Attachment Parenting?
The API Principles are written to be accessible to any parent and provide encouragement and support for parents to discover and practice relationship/learning-based discipline. The research that supports the Principles has been shown to promote healthy parent-child relationships and positive child outcomes.
The parents out there living the Attachment Parenting lifestyle every day are in the best position to answer some of the big questions. We want you to clarify the misinterpretations and open up a real discussion.
Tell us what AP is like from your POV! API’s Eight Principles of Parenting stand as inclusive, broad guides to optimal development, but we want to hear from attachment parents the diverse, real-life applications. We believe that our stories are proof of the diversity of healthy parenting. Tell us how you implement the API Principles in your family.
1. Submit a post that shares:
- How one or more attachment parenting principles plays out in your family
- How you came to attachment parenting
- What are you most misunderstood for by those critical of your practice attachment parenting principles
- What you wish for others to understand about the way you choose to parent
- What can we, as those practicing AP, do better to increase understanding/decrease misunderstanding about attachment parenting
API subscribes to non-violent communication and urges posts to be expressive and authentic at the same time as being respectful and encouraging. Our mission is to inform and create awareness that AP is for everyone, that parents can find support and the resources to help them on their journey.
2. Publish a post on the above topic to your own blog with the following text (including hyperlinks):
This post is part of the Attachment Parenting is for Everyone blog carnival, hosted by Attachment Parenting International. Learn more by visiting API Speaks, the blog of Attachment Parenting International.
3. Once your post is completed, submit a link to your submission via email to webeditor@attachmentparenting.org with a short message that the post is part of the What Attachment Parenting is for Everyone Blog Carnival.
Submissions will be accepted until April 11!
Please note that in order to participate in the blog carnival, the post must be published and publicly viewable.
If you do not have a blog, but would like to submit a guest post for Attachment Parenting is for Everyone, please email webeditor@attachmentparenting.org to make arrangements.
