My home life was rich in attachment -- and stimulus. Attachment begins with the creation of emotionally close, consistent relationships between parents adn children in all child development stages.
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API Leader and mother of 3, Kelly Shealer shares 3 tips to strengthen connection with our children over the summer on API's blog. |
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Children need to play. Play is so essential to children’s health and well-being -- and so endangered -- that the United Nations lists it as a guaranteed right in its Convention on the Rights of the Child. |
I recently reflected on the first time that my son played with dirt in our backyard. While my husband was busy preparing for our annual vegetable garden, I watched as my little one grabbed a tiny fistful of soil. |
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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. |
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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Attachment Parenting is based on more than 60 years of solid, interdisciplinary research into parent-child relationships, from infant bonding and breastfeeding to nurturing touch and discipline. |
Whether you will be starting your plants from seeds or purchasing transplants from a greenhouse, it is exciting to start planting! |
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British child pyschologist and psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland's "Best Relationship with Your Child" DVD series explores parenting strategies to strengthen the parent-child relationship. |
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