Recently my girl friends are attending a seminar for new mom. One of them gave birth to her first child last February and the other two are due to the last quarter of the year. All three of them are happily embracing motherhood. I chatted with one of them when I visited her house early last week and I had fun listening to her about the seminar she attended, about the new method of raising your kids, Attachment Parenting. Her husband is one of my best friends since I was 5. Although it just recently received popularity, the idea of Attachment Parenting or AP, have already started since the early 1950's. So what about Attachment Parenting that made it different from the common and conventional way of raising kids? She told me earnestly while sharing a nice dinner.
Most families actually are doing Attachment Parenting without even noticing it. Some are doing it as a sign of financial instability or they have insecurities of the world outside their homes. However, nowadays Attachment Parenting vaguely differs from its traditional definition. The idea of AP starts during pregnancy. It promotes drugless pregnancy and would most definitely hope for a natural delivery, but cases of caesarian delivery is still welcome.
After delivery, AP encourages breastfeeding, sleeping with the baby while still infant and later on when the child is already able to respond and hear do what you have to say, you have to apply positive and gentle disciplinary actions. AP also encourages homeschooling up to high school though this practice is sometimes not materialized because it's still best to send your child to an educational institution specially for college.
These practices will ensure a highly strong bond of closeness between the parents and the child and will therefore decrease possibilities of child rearing problems such as those in Reactive Attachment Disorder.
In any way, it is still best to make things in balance. Give them enough freedom to do what they want and stand as the guide and do not try to hinder from what they want to achieve, instead, support them and interfere only if you know it's misleading them. It's all for a healthy family. Love, care, guidance - all too much of this is fatal.
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