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API celebrates 20 years! In 1994, API began with a mission to bring research and support to parents, with a focus on fostering secure attachment. Today, API continues that mission because of the grassroots movement reflecting the deep... read more |
If you love our work then tell the world! You have an opportunity to help us make even more of a difference in our community. |
Join host Susan Stiffelman, MFT – parenting expert, educator, therapist and author – for these inspiring and engaging dialogues with world-renowned thought-leaders. |
There may not be too many in the older generations who would identify their parenting approach as Attachment Parenting necessarily, but this approach to parenting is basically being a nurturing parent. |
[VIDEO] This edition of the InBrief series outlines basic concepts from the research on the biology of stress which show that major adversity can weaken developing brain architecture and permanently set the body's stress response system on high... read more |
Raising a 'goal-digger' requires three things: Time, attention and listening. We can give children too many things, but we can never give them too much love. When we give them too many things too easily, they become gold-diggers. |
Children who experience profound neglect have been found to be more prone to a behavior known as "indiscriminate friendliness," characterized by an inappropriate willingness to approach adults, including strangers. |
Happy New Year from API! We're ringing in 2014 with a FRESH NEW WEBSITE and we are very excited to share it with you: ... read more |
Maybe you never knew there was a name for it—the unique way you raise your child—but it's in tune with your child's needs and with your own needs, and your family lives it out daily. |