I
don't believe attachment parenting causes children to become weak,
dependent little wussies who have to be held by a parent before they
can fall asleep in their dorm bed at college. No, I could care less how
long anyone co-sleeps or carries junior around in the sling. But you
know what I think is occasionally an unfortunate side effect of
attachment parenting?
Self-righteousness.
Not all AP folks are judge-y, and in fact, the ones I know are
pretty mellow. And there's Ferberizers and whatever-ers who get
righteous too. But when I read the interview with Dave Taylor,
author of the Attachment Parenting blog, the very first line was "The
core philosophy behind AP is
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