attachment parenting

Blossom is an Attachment Parent. Why Do We Care?

Mayim Bialik, who used to be Blossom, and now has a PhD in Neuroscience and two young boys is now a blogger. And in this post, she describes what being an attachment parent means to her. Needless to say it has caused somewhat of a stir. I get it. It sounds somewhat defensive and somewhat [...]

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The Adorable Prison Guard

There was an overwhelmingly annoying article doing the rounds at the moment. Erica Jong has written an essay in the Wall Street Journal all about how modern parenting and attachment parenting in particular makes a prison for mothers and essentially sets the feminist movement back. And I could write reems about that but Motherlode has [...]

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No Extra Inspiration Required

Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the [...]

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Just Wonderful: Love and Partners and Natural Parenting

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Love and partners! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month we’re writing about how a co-parent has or has not supported us in our dedication to natural parenting. Please read to [...]

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The Backslide

When Riley was about 14 months old she started reliably sleeping through the night and no needing my presence to get to sleep. Up until that point she was up three or more times a night and at nap time I would need to rock or stroke her to sleep. Perhaps it was because I [...]

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Lists or How Twitter Has Taken Over My Life

I first read about twitter lists on Jessica Gottlieb a few days ago. And to be honest if I’d read about them even a month ago I would probably have thought ‘Really? What’s the point of that? Wouldn’t you just use your twitter/feed/app/whatever?’ But recently, due to my increasing twitter addiction, this doesn’t seem so [...]

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Crying It Out to Create Soldiers

“War babies cry it out shut down’ was a search term on google that landed not just one person on my site, but two this week. A little odd, but it reminded me of the Channel 4 Show: Bringing Up Baby which attempted to measure the successes and shortcomings of three different parenting methods for [...]

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