Featured Twitter List: Attachment Parenting
Today's featured list comes from the other side of the world, where a Mom named Zoey blogs about parenting from Australia. She created a mix called Attachment Parenting and since none of us here at the office have children we figured we'd reach out to her to find out what Attachment Parenting is. (As if we knew what parenting is about, ahem.).
Here's what Zoey said:
Attachment parenting was a phrase coined by Dr Sears and is a parenting style based on understanding your child's emotional and physical needs and responding sensitively to those needs. It promotes the idea that by developing a strong and trusting relationship with your children you are fostering their independence and emotional development. There are no 'rules' of attachment parenting - it is all about following your instincts but this can often include responding to your baby's cries, demand breastfeeding, extended breastfeeding, babywearing, cosleeping, using gentle ways to get your baby to sleep and minimising separation from your baby in the early years.
The fourteen people on the list are people selected by Zoey who have identified themslves as atttachment parents. Have kids? Have kids on the way? Follow the stream for a few days and you might just become an attachment parent yourself!
Click here for the expanded view of the list
Thanks for the list, Zoey. For more about what's parenting like in Australia (our guess is it's probably not too different from here in the States!), visit her blog goodgoog.com.
