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API Links is a monthly e-newsletter to help keep parents, professionals, and others abreast of the latest news and research in Attachment Parenting and updates of API programs.

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Dear Reader,

You Rock the World!

Spending the weekend with La Leche League coFounder Marian Tompson, Attachment Parenting authors Bill and Martha Sears, and many other incredible speakers in a once-in-a-lifetime event--with friends and cake--made celebrating 25 years really rock!

We learned in person about so much wonderful work being done to support families. How everyone is meeting the needs of breastfeeding and parenting families in our communities was so inspiring!

We recognized Marian and Isabelle Fox with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their work supporting parents and advocating for children--read more about this presentation at the API Link below.

Thank you to all of our conference speakers and panelists, our donors and exhibitors, and our conference committee and volunteers!

We invite you to enjoy all the photos, videos, and presentations from our time together - from the music and magic with the kids, to talks on breastfeeding and attachment, panels on discipline and birth and more, to our incredible time with author Rebecca Wells and singer/songwriter Gary Nicholson on Friday and Saturday evenings!

In this API Links issue, also read our 2019 Update and 2020 Plans, our tremendous appreciation for API Board Member Camille North and longtime API Links Editor, as well as more on Attachment Parenting, including upcoming support group meetings--share your meeting too or let us help you start a group in your community in the new year!
 
Thank you to our donors and supporters for their contributions this year, for making this work continue and grow. We appreciate you and your compassion for families and our world.

Happy new year from our families to yours!

Attachment Parenting International

API Links you to...
New books supporting Attachment Parenting, including Attached at the Heart, AP research, Rocking the World with photos and resources, adoption resource update, Lifetime Achievement Awards from API to LLL co-Founder and children's advocate, ACEs, resilience, and more! Read Editor's Picks below, and be sure to click through to read all the parenting news and research.Attached at the Heart Re-released with Praeclarus Press!
Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker is now published by Praeclarus Press!
 
Parenting Education Training News
England - East Tennessee
Congratulations to our newest Attached at the Heart Parenting Educators in Greece and Argentina!
API's next parenting educator training workshops are in England and East Tennessee!
Mothers Affiliated with a Positive Parenting Program Report Rearing their Children Differently
API is featured in this study as described in the recently published research abstract "Mothers Affiliated with a Positive Parenting Program [Attachment Parenting International] Report Rearing their Children Differently" by Margaret M. Smith and George W. Holden for the Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Have a Group Offering AP Support?
API supports all groups wanting to promote API Principles. API is taking this further by now making all of its information openly available. To begin with, API is inviting all API Principle-espousing groups to list their group and meeting information. If you would like to include your group, click here to complete this form about your group and meeting times, also affirming the group supports the API Principles. Group events will appear on the API homepage, as well as the group searchable site at www.attachmentparenting.org/groups. Groups are offered an "API Principles support badge" to post on their pages to demonstrate their support to parents.
A listing in the API group and event does not imply API approval or responsibility for groups. Parents should validate group activity against API Principles and other resources found on the API website.
New Resources for AP Families!
Attached at the Heart now published by Praeclarus Press!
 
Judy Arnall's new book, Attachment Parenting Tips
Adventures in Tandem Nursing: Breastfeeding During Pregnancy and Beyond - announcing 2nd edition!
30 Day Blackout: How to help your kids turn off the screen and turn to their family
Kid Care Approved, Inc. resource reviews
James McKenna's Safe Infant Sleep coming January 2020 from Platypus Media- order right now for the special rate!
Cuddled and Carried / Consentido y cargado
Marian Tompson and Isabelle Fox Awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards
Congratulations and thank you, Marian and Isabelle, for all you've done to serve families!
AP Group Leadership Resources
Starting a parenting support group? Have a parenting group? Check out API's free self-guided leader preparation tool for individuals interested in starting a group in their community or adding AP Principles to an existing parenting group meeting.
AP Community Parenting Group Facilitation Guide to Supporting Families
Upcoming Meetings, Trainings, and Events
January
(visit for meeting details)
﻿2020-01-02
Support Meeting for San Diego County AP
Location: Solana Beach Library
2020-01-03
Support Meeting for API of Northern Virginia
Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, Oakton, VA
2020-01-04
Support Meeting for API of Fresno, CA
Location: 5091 N Fresno St. Ste 133 Fresno, California
2020-01-06
Support Meeting Fox Valley AP, IL
Location: OhmMother Yoga
 
2020-01-08
Support Meeting for API of Brandon, FL
 
2020-01-12
Support Meeting for San Francisco API
Location: Richmond Library
2020-01-13
Support Meeting for API of Las Vegas, Nevada
Location: Chiropractic for Life
2020-01-14
Support Meeting for API of Central Iowa
Location: Willowsong Midwifery
2020-01-14
Support Meeting for API of Topeka, Kansas
Location: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka
2020-01-14
Support Meeting for API of Central Austin
Location: Yarborough Branch Library
Pictured: Attached at the Heart Training in Argentina.
Send API your photo to be featured!
2020-01-14
Support Meeting for South Austin API
Location: Austin Public Library-Manchaca Library Branch
 
2020-01-17
Support Meeting for API of West LA, CA
Location: The Sanctuary Birth and Family Wellness Center
2020-01-18
Support Meeting Fox Valley API, IL
Location: Fluffy Envy
2020-01-19
Support Meeting for Nashville API
Location: Blakemore United Methodist Church
 
2020-01-21
Support Meeting for API of Greater Atlanta
 
2020-01-25
Support Meeting for API of Las Vegas, Nevada
Location: Well Rounded Mama Homestead
 
2020-01-28
Support Meeting for API of Central Iowa
Location: Tifereth Israel Synagogue
Together we can! API is proactively engaged with organizations with diverse missions and activities in order to leverage and expand our work in supporting all parents, children and families to promote secure attachments and strong, positive relationships.
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