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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Annika, my African accessory. Last week the whole attachment parenting community was up in arms over an essay written by feminist Erica Jong. I was annoyed by the article, but not because of her accusations against attachment parenting. She’s right, in a sense. The trendy attachment parenting pedigree would be a prison if you’re a [...]
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For those of you following my series on attachment theory I need to apologize. I left you hanging on the last bit of the chapter on maternal violence. Things got a little hectic and I dropped the ball. But here we go again. The final part of chapter five, on maternal violence in the book, [...]
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Thus far, chapter five of A Secure Base, by John Bowlby, has proven to be the most interesting to me. In the last part of the chapter we learned that childhood anxiety, rejection, abandonment, and simply fear of abandonment, can affect dramatically a person’s likelihood to abuse their own children. It makes more sense to [...]
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So here we are. Halfway through the book, A Secure Base. And this chapter is promising to be pretty fascinating. Last week we read about how family violence was not considered to be a major factor in adults’ psychological disturbances in the scientific world, until fairly recently. This is a part of my ongoing series [...]
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Well folks, we’re halfway through the book, A Secure Base, written by John Bowlby, who was one of the first researchers on attachment. This next chapter is on family violence, a prevalent and far-reaching problem that stems from the most basic of needs. So far I feel like I’ve learned a lot, and much of [...]
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As part of my series on attachment theory, I am summarizing, A Secure Base, by John Bowlby, a leading researcher in attachment theory, which is the basis for attachment parenting philosophy. Chapter four is Bowlby’s argument that psychology should be considered a natural science. He believed that since it had been theorized that basic human [...]
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I’m going to finish up chapter three of a A Secure Base, in this post. We left off with Bowlby’s belief that no matter a child’s personality, the mother sets the basic tone of mother/child interaction. This is part of my series studying attachment theory as put forth by one of the premier theorists, in [...]
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I wouldn’t say that one of my main problems in life is putting too much effort into anything. For the most part, my life has consisted of me sitting around during bad times and going, “Man this sucks, but making it better would take too much effort.” And during good times, going, “Yeeah, that’s right.” [...]
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