"How, then, can a healthy degree of empathy be instilled in a child? “Empathy is a mutable trait, it can be taught,” Dr. Riess told me.
Peace
API Links
|
|
Have you ever tried to explain to someone what attachment parenting is? |
|
Learn about the research behind this year's theme for AP Month, and get ready to celebrate Attachment Parenting by empowering our children's words. |
The experience of being a mom can be challenging, exhausting, rewarding, and inspirational. |
|
Announcing the theme of AP Month 2017 -- "Word Power: Communicating for Connection" -- and inviting your photo submissions on this theme. |
Today, April 30, is SpankOut Day -- an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline, working to eliminate physical punishment of children and to promote nonviolent discipline. |
|
Parenting education needs a boost in national politics and policymaking discussions. The effects of growing up feeling unloved has become a public health crisis. |
Good sportsmanship is a tough skill to learn -- for both children and adults. This video demonstrates empathy in action among preteens who just won perhaps the biggest soccer match of their lives. |
|
Most of us are fortunate to have never known war up-close. Most of us have never spent time as a refugee. Most of us have never tried parenting for peace in a war zone. This video describes what's all involved. |
It is possible to be healed from toxic shame and emotional trauma, but the process is never easy. For certain, covering up the trauma with symptom relievers won't heal the underlying trauma. |
Pages
© 2013 - 2021 Attachment Parenting International. All Rights Reserved. API is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donate Now
