For so many women, breastfeeding was the turning point for our journey into Attachment Parenting.
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Public breastfeeding can infuriate us, scare us, make us feel ashamed or empower us. |
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I was born and raised in New York City, USA, one of three girls. My father was a physician, my mother is a teacher but spent much of my childhood as a stay-at-home mother. As a child, I always knew that when I grew up, I wanted to be a mother. |
The recent controversies generated by depictions of Attachment Parenting in the Western mdia and elsewhere have revealed a fairly astounding degree of misinformation about infant and child development. |
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I have a confession to make: I am constantly in a rush. In fact, the more I think about it, the more that I can see how much of my life is spent hurrying. |
In celebration of Attachment Parenting International's 20th Anniversary, this two-part "Generation AP" series recognizes two of today's second-generation Attachment Parenting parents: |
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When my children were young, it was common for me to take them when I traveled for speaking engagements. At their stages of development, they still wanted and needed to stay close to me. |
By the time I found out there was an actual thing called Attachment Parenting, I had already been practicing it. I was only 19 when I had my first son. My mother-in-law had been an oddity in the very early '60s and breastfed her boys. |
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I suppose when I think about it, I have always had a fairly healthy level of confidence even if it was a more superficial sense. |
I returned to university to pursue a second degree this past January. I am now into my second semester as a mom of two school-age kids and a student in my own right. |
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