How does violence affect children cognitively? And what can parents do to help them? Read about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip.
Monthly Links
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Respond with Sensitivity
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October 10, 2016
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October 7, 2016
Is world peace possible? When we talk about the potential for Attachment Parenting to change the world, we are referring to a ripple effect: Our children growing up to be compassionate and empathic, becoming parents who foster secure attachments with their children, whose children then grow up to repeat the cycle of peaceful living both in and out of the home. Read more in this API blog post. |
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October 6, 2016
"As today's children will become tomorrow's adults, a life cycle of compassion and connection will pave the way for a more peaceful, compassionate world for future generations." Share this meme on API's blog or Facebook page. |
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October 6, 2016
Nine individual protective competencies constitute "social resilience." Read more what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 3, 2016
There are several important external resources in an individual's groups or community that contribute to "social resilience." Read more about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 3, 2016
Our ability to play is at the basis of assumptions that peace is deeply biological. Read more about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 1, 2016
"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." See this API meme on APtly Said and Facebook. |
Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
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October 9, 2016
"Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." Share this meme on API's blog or Facebook page. |
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October 8, 2016
"Children are our most valuable resource." Share this meme on API's blog or Facebook page. |
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October 5, 2016
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Share this meme on API's blog or Facebook page. |
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October 4, 2016
What is the key to promoting peace and harmony in our world? APtly Said's Assistant Editor and mother of 2, Effie Morchi empowers parents to be the peacemakers in how they raise their children. |
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October 3, 2016
"In the role of parents, we are our children's first and most important role models." Share this API meme on Facebook. |
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October 3, 2016
"The greatest gift we can give to our children is to raise them in a culture of peace." Share this API meme on Facebook. |
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September 30, 2016
We, as a society, have to change the way we live. It's just that simple, and just that hard. Join us all through October as API explores how to nurture peace by parenting for world harmony through AP Month 2016. World peace begins with peace in the home |
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September 30, 2016
"Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of behavioural and emotional problems in children, says a new review published in The Lancet Psychiatry." |
Use Nurturing Touch
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October 8, 2016
API is excited to support International Babywearing Week 2016, Oct. 5-10. API provides a wide array of resources on babywearing -- from benefits to how-to's and safety. Happier babies do tend to make more peaceful homes, but babywearing has a deeper connection to peace. Learn more on API's blog. |
Practice Positive Discipline
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October 8, 2016
What are the 4 key components of school-based violence prevention programs? Read about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 5, 2016
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children: Paraguay prohibits corporal punishmentOn 17 August 2016, the Paraguayan National Congress approved the Law on Promotion of Good Treatment, Positive Parenting and Protection of Children and Adolescents against Corporal Punishment or Any Type of Violence as a Method of Correction or Discipline (Ley de Promoción del Buen Trato, Crianza Positiva y de Protección a Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes Contra el Castigo Físico o Cualquier Tipo de Violencia Como Método de Corrección o Disciplina), which was enacted by the Executive on 2 September 2016. |
Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally
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October 7, 2016
"But it’s not all about economics. There is security in sharing a bed, security that comes with another person very near and possibly the security that comes with touching and being touched. Whatever is scary in the night is probably less scary when someone else is near." "I think humans evolved sleeping together, and that is especially so for infants and young children. It is only in recent times and almost only for economically well-off households that there is so much sleeping in separate beds (and even in separate rooms). |
Other
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October 7, 2016
Learn how citizenship activiites and community participation benefited 2 urban areas in Honduras in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 5, 2016
Positive emotions, engagement, meaning, personal well-being, and resilience... Which of these areas are strong? Which areas need more support? Read more about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
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October 5, 2016
Each year, the AP Month coordinating team searches for a design that aptly captures the theme for AP Month that year. We go through a lot of designs, trying to find just the right one to illustrate all that we want to explore each October. This year, we selected a design by... Find out on API's blog. |
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October 4, 2016
Wellbeing at the community level, which can be applied to regional, national, or international communities, comprises 6 key domains. Read more about what the research says in this AP Month Daily Tip. |
Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life
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October 7, 2016
"Family fun often means new activities and destinations but a new study suggests leisure time spent at home in familiar pastimes may be a better route to happiness. “That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information, such as taking part in an unfamiliar activity with unfamiliar people in a new location, less ‘brain power’ is available to focus on the family relationships,” said lead author Karen K. Melton, Ph.D., assistant professor of child and family studies at Baylor University." |
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September 30, 2016
Editor's PickDonate to the 2016 AP Month auction and support API's mission while sharing with others about your product or service. For more information contact Jennifer at advertising@attachmentparenting.org. Be sure to bid from October 18 to 31! |
Provide Consistent and Loving Care
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October 7, 2016
"Years of research have shown that trauma and adverse events in childhood can put a person at an elevated risk for a wide range of physical and mental health problems across their life span. But the scope and significance of that impact – and how to reverse it – is just beginning to come into focus." |
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October 7, 2016
Editor's Pick"Soon after Nadine Burke Harris opened a pediatrics clinic in a low-income neighborhood in San Francisco, she began grappling with the high rates of asthma and other illnesses that she was diagnosing in her patients. She wanted to understand why so many of the kids she saw were so sick. “They would have chronic abdominal pain, headaches, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, opposition defiant disorder,” she said. “It could be that all these different kids have all these diagnoses, or it could be that there is one thing at the root of this.” |
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October 6, 2016
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Feed with Love and Respect
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October 4, 2016
"1. Teach mums, and those around them how normal it is for breastfed babies to feed frequently and how this is necessary to build up a mother’s milk supply. 2. Tell all new parents and those around them about normal baby sleep and support them in other ways to get more rest." |
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September 30, 2016
"The most surprising thing is that breastfeeding is even more of a maternal health issue than a children's health issue. It has a bigger impact in terms of medical cost and a bigger impact in terms of lives saved. And most of that impact is derived from encouraging women to breastfeed as long as they can for each child. For example, if women optimally breastfeed — meaning breastfeeding for at least one year — and we got the current breast feeding rates from about 30 percent of mothers up to 90 percent, we could avert 5,023 cases of breast cancer per year. |
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