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When I was a new mother, I heard all the usual reasons why I shouldn’t practice Attachment Parenting with my baby – namely, the need to teach her early independence. Now that I’ve had a few babies, people are wising up that I think that argument for early independence is bogus. Children naturally learn independence [...]
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Kids get bored so easily these days. Back in the day, you had to be creative and find entertainment in the littlest things. You had to get outside and plan a busy, busy day of exploring, hide and seek, tag and anything else that involved using your imagination. Now, kids have access to too much [...]
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It’s one of those moments that parents never think will happen to them, and then suddenly they find themselves in that moment wondering how they got there and what it will take to get them out. Last weekend, I sat beside my oldest daughter as she lay in a hospital bed, waiting for a doctor [...]
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A monumental event happened in our home last night: My almost six-year-old daughter, my oldest, came to me sometime in the middle of the night after a scary dream to ask if she could sleep in my bed for the night. Half asleep, I pulled a pillow next to me and spread my blanket over [...]
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I have spanked a child. Wow, that was hard to admit. It was before I fully embraced Attachment Parenting, way back when. I was a new parent, I was intrigued by AP and positive discipline, but I was struggling against the punishing mindset I grew up with. SpankOut Day is Monday, April 30. What will [...]
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My four- and five-year-old daughters go to a wonderful Montessori-style preschool. I had originally planned to homeschool, but my oldest daughter had some significant development delays that I was unable to address. I did not have the knowledge or training to work with her on cognitive processing and motor skill delays. And the preschool has [...]
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With my older children, who are now four and five years old, I wore them in a carrier for a time, but they never really took to it like my son. In the house, I don’t usually babywear. I’m satisfied with him being in arms as much as he likes, but as he’s becoming more [...]
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Through many years of experience with talking to new homeschooling moms, I often hear the same questions repeated time and again. Homeschooling creates a paradigm shift for many people. It goes against the grain of popular culture and society. For this reason, the thought of getting started is often laced with fear and anxiety. What [...]
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I have a lot of friends, but I don’t have a lot of friends who I agree with in parenting approach. It makes me feel very alone sometimes. A couple weeks ago, I attended a mothers group at the local church where many of my nearby friends attend. I didn’t know all of the women [...]
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I believe that children need discipline. They need to know where the limits are; they need to know boundaries. Some parents prefer forms of punishment; those who raise their children in an attachment-minded way tend toward teaching and guidance. I wonder, though, if we truly ever get away from punishing – perhaps we don’t spank [...]
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I lost my temper with my five-year-old today. She had asked if she could wear flip-flops on her bare feet to play outside, and with the weather still a bit cool, I told her that it was too cold to wear flip-flops and that she would need to wear shoes and socks. She smiled, said [...]
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Women like to judge one another. Apparently, it’s how we’re wired because it takes a great deal of conscious effort to learn to suppress this desire. It’s really too bad, because we could offer a lot to one another if we weren’t so busy pushing our agendas at each other and defending our decisions. Women [...]
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