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Attachment Parenting: Practices and benefits Attachment parenting receives a lot of press, and it is often misunderstood as “extreme” parenting.	Attachment Parenting philosophy draws praise, criticism A woman waits in line at a local health food store, happily scanning produce through the self checkout and glancing down to answer a text message.
Attachment parenting, positive touch, and breastfeeding may help improve youth development and behavior University of Notre Dame completed an interdisciplinary research study that observed impacts of current cultural parenting practices. Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology, reports, “Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially... read more	Philosophies from 20 years of Attachment Parenting Attachment Parenting International is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and while the times have changed tremendously for families across the nation in the past two decades, the group's board president says most of the main philosophies of... read more
Our lasting presents as parents I've been reflecting on my childhood in the 1950s, helping me to realize how much my mother practiced what we now call Attachment Parenting. One of my earliest memories is a Christmas when I was about 4 years old...	Struggling with Attachment Parenting? It's not that AP parents always have it together, that we are superhuman in handling our strong emotions and therefore never raise our voices or give in to our knee-jerk reactions.
Control or the lack thereof This article was originally published on Sept. 24, 2008, but it puts into perspective why new motherhood can sometimes be hard to adjust to.	A grandmother's take on Attachment Parenting I had spent eight months adjusting to the idea of being a grandmom.
Love works for everybody Spanking works for nobody, no matter how you slice it. It's just a quick fix and, truly, not even that. It's cheating at not only parenting, but being a human being toward other humans.	Trust Whenever I encounter turbulence on my maiden voyage of parenting, I take solace in reminding myself of one really crucial ingredient of Attachment Parenting: trust.

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