The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
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Book Overview
From the bestselling authors of The Baby Book, William Sears M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N. explain the benefits -- for both you and your child -- of connecting with your baby early. Would you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence? Dr. Bill Sears, "the man who remade motherhood" (TIME), and Martha Sears -- the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" -- answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment, and advocates parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs. The Attachment Parenting Book clearly explains the six "Baby B's" that form the basis of this popular parenting style: Bonding Breastfeeding Babywearing Bedding close to baby Belief in the language value of baby's cry Beware of baby trainers
Here's all the information you need to achieve your most important goals as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.
Here's all the information you need to achieve your most important goals as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0316778095
ISBN13:9780316778091
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Little, Brown Spark
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 7.4" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Okay, but duplicate material from Sears' The Baby Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
A good concise book, but you can find most of the same material in the Attachment Parenting chapter in Sears' The Baby Book, a much more comprehensive book of the same price.
Wish I would have gotten this BEFORE having the baby
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book was GREAT! I wish I would have purchased this before having the baby. Instead I purchased it 3 months after having the baby after I had read a lot of other nonsense from other "experts". This book really made a lot of sense in that it treats having a baby/child more like a LIFESTYLE (which having children is a change in lifestyle). The other books I read seemed to be treating the baby like a nuisance or inconvenience rather than a human life. This book really helped me to relax and get away from the idea of schedule or routine with the baby and go more with the flow of treating the baby like a person with her own needs rather than a dog to train to be on a schedule.
I wish all new parents-to-be would read this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I have just one thing to say. I wish all mainstream parents out there would read this book if for nothing else than to learn that there *are* other parenting tools and methods out there other than yelling and letting kids cry themselves to sleep and "sleep training". There are gentler, more respectful ways to parent and theis books touches on them all. Love it.
THE Attachment Parenting resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I found The Attachment Parenting Book by Dr. and Martha Sears to be an outstanding resource, both for myself and for the "grandparents", who are a little critical of our parenting style! The tone is not at all judgemental, so that you feel comfortable taking the ideas that you like and leaving those who don't work for you, even though a convincing case is made, in my opinion, for breastfeeding, babywearing, sleep sharing and responding to baby's cries. Clearly and concisely written, this book is a must-read for all new parents, especially those interested in attachment parenting.
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