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
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
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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
My fourth submission of love is some pretty great advice for those days when you just want to yell and scream your kids into submission. Hannah’s advice for handling sibling fights will not only (possibly) calm your kids down, but it gives you an opportunity to give them a nice compliment at the same time [...]
Categories: Happiness Project, Motherhood, Uncategorized
| Tags: Attachment Parenting, Month of Love, Motherhood, Parenting, 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
Happy New Year to you! I’ve been blogging for over a year now, but 2010 was the first full year. Here’s a recap of some of my favorite posts to entertain you over the weekend. Here’s hoping that everyone begins 2011 with a fresh and relaxing weekend. Just one of the things nobody warns you [...]
Categories: Alcoholism, Attachment Parenting, Bi-racial, Biracial, Blogging, Motherhood, Parenting, Racism, Review
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Bi-racial, Drunk blogging/Dr-logging, Holidays, Inter-racial, Motherhood, Parenting, Racism, Stereotypes
A sleeping child is one of the most beautiful sights. The day I’ve been waiting for is here. I think. I mean, with toddlers you never really know for sure how long anything is going to last. The only thing that’s for certain is that they will eventually grow up and you will be able [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
| Tags: Annika, Attachment Parenting, Co-sleeping
Not just my bed, she’s taken over my gadgets too. Annika has been noticing her “spot” in bed as of late. If I happen to roll over there, or if god forbid, we happen to switch sides and she is lying in “my spot,” she screams, “Mama! That’s MY spot! You can’t lay in my [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Parenting
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Annika explores her world. After two plus years of hanging out in the Attachment Parenting world, I have begun to think that breastfeeding should not be so fiercely held up to the world as a necessity or even as the most important measure one can take with a newborn. My mother was a La Leche [...]
Categories: Attachment Parenting, Attachment Theory, Motherhood, Parenting
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