What?! Annika has started asking me a lot of questions I don’t know how to answer. Not because they are complex philosophical questions about God, or where babies come from, but because I can’t understand what she’s talking about. She’s in a phase where the questions in her brain are apparently more complex than she [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
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Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
And now, on to Chapter three of A Secure Base, by John Bowlby. Since I started reading this book, I am feeling even more certain that I have made a good choice for Annika and myself when choosing to parent this way. It’s not important just for her, but for me, that I parent this [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Parenting
| Tags: A Secure Base, Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Books, John Bowlby, Parenting
The other day I was trying to figure out how I would take off the tags from one of Annika’s toys while out in public and I thought, “Maybe I need to get a pocketknife.” This is one of those thoughts that stems from having grown up in west Texas on a ranch. Yeah. I [...]
Categories: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blogging
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I love Texas. It’s my home. Even though I moved to Japan, then Montana, then settled in Detroit for nine years, I always knew that I would come back to Texas someday. As much as I love Texas and feel like it is my home, there has always been this little bit of me that [...]
Categories: Austin, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Texas
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This is the fourth part in a series on attachment theory. I am summarizing my reading of A Secure Base, by John Bowlby. Bowlby was one of the premier researchers on attachment theory, which is the basis for attachment parenting. This is the second part of Chapter 2. If you need to catch up you [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Review
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Yep, she isn’t happy about it either. I have never been overly concerned with my body –until now. Having a baby has definitely changed me, and not all of it is pretty. In fact, one particular part of it is extremely gross. I consider myself to be lucky that I’ve never had a weight problem [...]
Categories: Motherhood, Parenting
I’ve finished chapter one of A Secure Base, by John Bowlby and I’m looking forward to getting started on chapter two. Hope y’all are enjoying this with me. I know it’s a bit dense, but I think the information is good and solid. I already feel more secure in my parenting having read some of [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Review
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When I was pregnant one of my biggest fears regarding becoming the mother of a Bi-racial child was the thought that she would identify with one half of her racial identity. I worried (for obvious reasons) that the half she identified with would not be mine, thus denying our mother/child bond. I don’t think this [...]
Categories: Bi-racial, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Race, Racial Identity, Racism
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As part of my (personal) study on attachment, I am reviewing the book, A Secure Base, by John Bowlby. Bowlby was the premier researcher on attachment theory. His research spanned approximately five decades. His work is the basis for the parenting style, Attachment Parenting. This post is a summary of the second half of chapter [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Books, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Review
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