Honest and Practical Attachment Parenting AdviceI firmly believe in attachment parenting as the way to raise emotionally-secure, healthy children. This site is full of parenting tips, anecdotes and advice – all tried and true, tested on four live(ly) children. Here you'll receive honest advice and plenty of support so you can be the best parent you can be.
Why Attachment ParentingOur children live in a fast-paced, fragmented world. Hours of television, day care centers, fast food – all imitations designed to replace what children really need: to be taught, to be loved and to be nourished.No matter what the commercials would have us believe, We are a society that undervalues parenthood except in the areas where money can be made from it. Companies work overtime designing and marketing products which claim to make our lives as parents easier. For example, plastic diapers, DVDs for babies and strollers that are more technologically advanced than NASA’s Atlantis. Over used, these consumer goods separate our children from us. They don’t fill our most basic human needs for love, social interaction and opportunities for growth and learning. Attachment parenting helps us tune out the marketing and cultural myths that have led us to believe parents can be replaced by professionals and plastic toys, and that our children’s dependency on us is a sign of weakness. It asks us to listen to our instincts and to parent from the heart. To hold our babies close, to develop a strong relationship with our children based on trust and devotion and to look upon the trials of parenting as opportunities for personal growth.
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