API is directly involved in building resilience in communities across the nation and around the world through its local API Support Groups and accredited API Leaders by supporting secure parent-child attachments. It cannot be emphasized enough how important secure attachments are. To be sure, resilience is something we all want for our children -- actually, resilience is something all children need.

Jane Stevens, founder of ACEs Too High and the ACEs Connection Network, elaborates on resilience and its opposite -- trauma -- in this API interview on API's blog.

While women have made significant headway when it comes professional equality, a shift of a similar magnitude hasn’t happened on the home front: Traditional gender roles persist at home, despite many couples’ best efforts to divide the work more equally. Men who take on the role of primary caregiver are often stigmatized rather than lauded. For gender equality to work, men need to take on these roles as often and as enthusiastically as women do. But that’s been a slow transition.

Maternal weight gain between pregnancies increases the risk for stillbirth and infant death during the first year of life, according to a nationwide cohort study.

API Resource Advisory Council member, Lisa Reagan shares on API's blog about what it's like watching her son getting ready to leave home and move out on his own, after 17 years of Attachment Parenting.

Would the world be a better place if more of us were trained to take a mindful moment to connect emotions we are feeling to our brains before we act? Advocates say that mindfulness, a behavioral learning approach that is experiencing exponential growth in schools across the country, develops a moment-by-moment awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, sensations and surrounding environment. It has been shown to strengthen our ability to pay attention where and when we want.

By its very nature, those of us who are insightful and mindful gravitate toward Attachment Parenting (AP) as it fits in with who we are as individuals. But when we model positive discipline and any other of API's Eight Principles of Parenting, other parents may be inspired and interestdin learning more about our parenting approach. Mother of 2, Effie Morchi explores on API's blog the idea of personal insight as an inherent trait of parents who gravitate toward Attachment Parenting.

You know this saying since it’s pretty much a parenting cliché used to cajole children to eat their vegetables: “There are starving children in Africa. You should be grateful that you have this food to eat.” I have never understood the logic that leads people to believe that mentioning such tragic information could motivate anyone to eat, let alone to develop a sudden appreciation for asparagus or rhubarb. If there are hungry children then there is a serious situation that should be fixed, right? How could begrudgingly eating the last bites alleviate trouble of that magnitude?

The Travis County jail is one of four nationwide — and the only in Texas, USA — to allow new moms to breastfeed in custody.

When a brand is going to do what brands do — try to sell you a product — it’s terrific when the company attempts to do it in a way that’s at least smart and sensitive to its customers. But if you really want to end the “mommy wars,” this formula company could start by not perpetuating the concept.

New evidence has emerged on the role that breastfeeding could have in preventing diabetes. Early results from a Canadian study suggest that breastfeeding reduces the risk of mothers and their offspring developing the condition.

Emotional resilience has become a buzzword in parenting. Yet most of us want our children to feel only one emotion: happiness. We may realize that emotional pain is an opportunity for awakening, but with our children we are quick to shield them from any emotional discomfort. Instead of happiness, I believe our parenting goal should be emotional health.

How do you stop a child, especially one who has experienced significant adversity, from growing up to be a psychopath? Responsive, empathetic caregiving -- especially when children are in distress -- helps prevent boys from becoming callous, unemotional adolescents, according to a new Tulane University study of children raised in foster care.

San Bernardino, Paris, Chattanooga, Tunisia, Fort Hood, Lafayette, Kuwait, Colorado Springs -- this short list is just a fraction of the mass shooting and terrorist activities that have occurred this year in the United States and around the world, not to mention the last few years. It is mind boggling, heart breaking and troubling to me as a parent whose goal is to raise compassionate, peaceful children. How am I supposed to do that exactly?