I’m one of the lucky ones, this is what I tell myself all the time. As far as single mothering goes, I have it relatively easier than many single moms. But even so, I have these dilemmas that come up and I have to deal with them on my own simply because there is not [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Single motherhood, Uncategorized
Extended co-sleeping seems to be one of those things most parents don’t really plan on. When I hear talk of co-sleeping, it’s usually about babies. But there is a large contingent of parents who co-sleep indefinitely with their children. It makes life so much easier. Research shows that extended co-sleeping is more common than many [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Uncategorized
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Tags: Attachment Parenting, Co-sleeping
We are done. Finally. After four years, exactly four years. Annika is done nursing. We made a deal a few months ago that on her fourth birthday she would be done nursing. It still trips me out that we nursed this long. Even for me, a kid who was nursed for at least three years, [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Extended Breastfeeding, Motherhood
The articles in last week’s Time magazine and other attachment parenting bashing articles are missing the point. Time isn’t the first publication to join in the fun of bandying around all the parenting tenets of AP. The publication has many of its facts wrong, or skewed, but that’s not really new. Most of the time [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: Attachment Parenting
So far preschool has been a major hit with only one minor setback. She has been sniffling for the past two weeks with allergies and last week, one morning I woke her up with the question of how well she felt to go to school. Her answer, “I LOVE school! I want to go.” It’s [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, School
Since I’m a single mom, I have glimpsed the future, without cosleeping, something that many/most AP moms don’t get a chance to do. It’s a sad, ironic future where you can finally sleep alone without the twisted torture of a child mangling your body while you sleep. But you miss it. You miss the child. [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Co-sleeping, Single Mom
Milk jugs. Yesterday I met with a childless male friend to chat about books and as we sat by a playscape, so Annika could play, she asked to nurse. I told her no. Mostly because I simply didn’t want to flop my breast out in front of him. I stopped wearing nursing bras a while [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood
| Tags: Annika, Breastfeeding, Motherhood
We just ended a day of puking and shitting. No, I did not get drunk last night. Annika has a stomach bug. There’s something about going through a day like this that gives me the feeling of pride in my dedication as a mother. Like, I earned a Girl Scout badge or something. I mean, [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Motherhood, Parenting
Tonight even though my brain and heart are heavy with all the political crap going around this nation that is pure and simple an assault on women and children, (A bill plotting the demise of Planned Parenthood, (yes, it passed the House); cuts in education funding for political reasons; a racist billboard campaign, (yep, we’ve [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Goals, Happiness Project, Intentions, Life, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Happiness Project, Multi-racial, Racism, Submission of Love
She slept in the Moby wrap a lot as a newborn. People are always talking about “getting babies to sleep,” or, even worse, “making babies sleep.” Or, how did your child “learn” to fall asleep on his/her own? Sleep is a funny thing in the parent world. There are basically two camps in the baby [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Co-sleeping, Extended Breastfeeding, Parenting
