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Please Support API's Annual Appeal Campaign We don't need a lot of money. We do need everyone to give a little.	Inviting them in... This post was originally published on October 6, 2008, but it's a great reminder that one way to connect with our children is to let them into our grownup world.
Teaching the art of giving While my daughter will certainly get the gifts that she has expressed interest in or requested, I do not want the receiving of gifts to be what she equates with Christmas, no do I want it to be the cause of most of her joy surrounding the season... read more	Strengthening AP marriages The transition to parenting is stressful in itself as new parents adjust to a new baby, and only intensifies issues in weak relationships.
Can you love your kids too much? “You can’t spoil a young baby by holding them and giving them lots of love.”	Hygge This warm feeling of connection has a word in Danish. They call it "hygge." My New Year's resolution last year was to bring more hygge into our lives.
Tantrums are opportunities to connect Whatever your experiences with your child, I hope you will understand that I love my daughter very much, am attentive to her, hold her, nurse her and do my very best to parent her from my heart.	Parent like nobody's watching At the end of the day, it's our children who remember our reactions, who absorb our behavior and who will benefit from a deep breath, followed by a positive response.
Reflections of AP fatherhood Attachment Parenting has made a profound, positive change in me as a father and as a person.	Living on both sides of the parenting gap When my husband and I moved into a working class community in southwestern Ohio, the parenting gap became a daily reality.

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