Attachment
Parenting is becoming pretty mainstream these days - the
slings-wearers, the breast feeders, the co-sleepers: they're
everywhere! AP is an idea that is so old, it's new again, and most
parents today practice AP in some form or another. Thanks in part to
mainstream magazines like Mothering, HipMama and good ol' Dr. Sears,
it is now fairly common to breast feed on demand, co-sleep, and wear
your baby. These are all positive things. But what happens when
attachment parenting lets you down?
BadBadIvy, over at Love Shak, Baby recently posted a rarely-heard take on attachment parenting that I feel like I could have written myself. In her post, How the AP Movement Gave My Daughter a Sense of Entitlement,
Ivy explores the idea that perhaps anticipating her daughter's every
need, and rarely separating from her until the age of 3, may have
contributed to her daughter's evolution into a demanding little diva.
Ivy is quick to point out that she doesn't blame AP, so much as she wonders
how much attachment parenting, combined with her daughter's innate
personality and temperament, played a part in her growing into "the exact definition of diva. She expects things to go her way, and
she wants that to happen right now. She also wants to be with me every
second of every day."
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