As parents my husband and I have always gone on instinct, and it wasn’t until we’d been parents for a year or so that we even knew there was a “label” for our style. Attachment Parenting. The philosophy that you keep your children close, practice gentle discipline, and let their growth and development happen organically and naturally. I’ve loved breastfeeding, babywearing, co-sleeping the whole deal. It’s what has always felt right for us, and we’ve also realized that parenting this way has fostered a closeness with our two kids that have autism that is special and precious and unmatched. They require extreme intuitiveness and sensitivity, and if we were not as connected as we are things in our home life would be profoundly more difficult. Attachment Parenting International (”API”) is an organization that strives to educate parents and bring parents together.
API has some new awesome things going on right now that I’m excited to be able to share with all of you. Here’s the deets:
Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit organization that promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents, has several exciting changes they would like to announce, including:
- A newly redesigned web site and new logo at Attachment Parenting.org;
- Attachment parenting worldwide support forums;
- Parent Education Program – a comprehensive series of classes for every stage and age of child development from infancy through adulthood;
- A new book based on API’s Eight Principles of Attachment Parenting by API co-founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson which is expected to be available this summer;
- A series of podcasts, webinars, chats, and forums with API Advisory Board members and other supporters of AP. Future events are scheduled with Dr. Bob Sears, Dr. James McKenna, and Kathleen Kendall Tacket. Check out the events page for more information.
These are just a few of many exciting things going on at API. I hope you’ll stop by and check it out for yourself.
I’m personally really excited about the educational series that they are scheduling, because I think they’ll be awesome for new and seasoned parents alike. Head over to API and see all their hard work in action!
