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Our days are filled with compassion--and passion--as our world grows in awareness, shares, speaks out, and supports change for equity and justice for our Black families. We are moved by generations of families, fathers, mothers, children, together acting to examine and make systemic change against racism.
Inherent to Attachment Parenting is the intention to exercise our empathy, stretch beyond our experiences, embrace sensitivity and compassion, and create a better world. For many of us, an AP mindset maybe be different from how we were raised. We are doing something new in our families and our communities. While significant to change ourselves, we do this to break cycles and nurture children so they can flourish and foster a new world of connection and love rather than unease and fear.
Making a change is a road fraught with failures and doubts, including for parenting decisions and actions. In the midst of that, practicing sensitivity, connection, and understanding and nurturing others, including our own children, is also immeasurably rewarding. The ultimate key to navigating the challenges and ensuring the immediate and long-term change is support. Taking time, becoming vulnerable, reaching out, and finding, or even creating, support may be the most difficult and most important effort we make.
That's why we're here to help you find support, help you offer support if you can provide it, help you connect and make change--at home, in your community, and in our world. We can work and support each other to change how we parent and through it, even reform the disparities that exist in our communities. API Board Member Darcia Narvaez writes in "Only for the Brave? Uncovering White Supremacy" about an important resource you can use for yourself, your parenting, and/or with your group, Layla Saad's "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor."
In this issue of API Links, we share many resources on talking with your children about racism, the effects of racism, and more, selected from thoughtful and informed parenting leaders. Use them in your home, in your support group meetings, and in your community. We'll add more and invite you to share your Attachment Parenting resources.
At this time that we are still sheltering, and as families face new waves of COVID-19 outbreak around the world, we continue to manage children's disappointments, expectations, and agendas. We invite you to let us know how you are doing through these two surveys:
If you're a parenting group leader, we want to hear from you. If you haven't already taken the leader survey, please do. We want to support you and give you the tools you need to serve your community.
If you're a parent, we would like to hear from you too.
How are you doing? Let us know by completing this
1 minute parent survey
so we can provide support that fits best.
Thank you to those who donated to API to support our programs during our Giving Tuesday Now and The Big Payback campaigns. We appreciate your support and recognition of the importance of this work in the world.
In many places in the world, tomorrow we celebrate Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to those rocking, holding, supporting, playing, listening, challenging, teaching, nurturing, loving, Attachment Parenting and all Dads in our lives! Here is a great resource we wanted to share that demonstrates the tremendous impact fathers have on their children and children generations to come in their choices about parenting.
Sending compassion, virtual hugs, and wishes for good health,
Attachment Parenting International
API Links you to...
Becoming a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Matter, The critical role white parents play in shaping racism — and eradicating it, Parenting as a Protest Against Hate, Staying home with teenagers, Leader surveys one and two, a parent survey, BabyBabyOhBaby resources through the end of June, the launch of Attached at the Heart in Turkish!, and much more. Read Editor's Picks below, and be sure to click through to read all the parenting news and research.
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API Links June 2020 - Changing Our World
