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Editor's Pick: Emotional abuse, a dark form of children's maltreatment In this week's Editor's pick, API is shedding light on a form of maltreatment of children that is often kept in the dark: emotional abuse.	Editor's pick: Where punishment, not even timeout, will have no home Today, as we celebrate SpankOut Day April 30th -- an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline (now part of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center) to bring attention to the need to stop physical punishment... read more
Why you should never use timeouts on your kids Not 15 minutes into the eight-hour class, certified parenting instructor Linda Hatfield, who runs a Southern California program called Parenting from the Heart, explained that decades of neuroscience and social research have shown that timeouts... read more	The Strong Evidence Against Spanking A review of the available research finds that physical punishment is significantly linked to bad outcomes for kids.
Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research "The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of... read more	Who will baby attach to? So what are the essential experiences that an infant needs to set their primary attachment figure apart from their other secondary ones?
Editor's pick: Reconnecting our kids with nature for healthy development Today is Earth Day. We are reminded of the need to protect our Earth with all its wonders and beautiful resources: the majestic oceans, captivating tall trees, vast grasslands, and all precious life forms.	5 tips for parents with -- and without -- access to paid parental leave API advocates knowledge and practices that value and maximize parental leave, recognizing parental presence with a child fosters early secure attachment and benefits families, businesses and societies.
Parental presence: A compromised human right Half of all U.S. babies are born into low-income families, the population segment least likely to be able to take parental leave of any type -- paid or unpaid -- after the birth of a baby.	Editor's pick: 6 evolved needs for healthy human development The Attachment Parenting approach can be regarded as parenting guided by nature's lead -- being attuned to our own feelings and instincts as well as our child's needs, such as following our natural instincts to breastfeed, respond to a crying... read more

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