Rating: Summary: Read More about this wonderful book .. Review: I found a web page from this author with lots of great info on attachment parenting and even some excerpts from the book. After reading her stuff, I immediately ordered this book.
Rating: Summary: Attachment Parenting: A nurturing style that works! Review: I have read a lot of Katie's writing on various parenting topics and have always found it insightful and fun. I can't wait for this book!!!
Rating: Summary: Reminds you how to parent with respect and love Review: I was lucky enough to recieve an advance copy of this amazing parenting book. With all of the books that have come out in the past few years teaching you how to train your baby and child this is a refreshing change. This book is a guide to raising your children with respect and love. As an AP mom myself I can honestly say that it works. I plan to give this book to all my friends who are expectant and new parents!
Rating: Summary: An indispensable, hands-on guide to attachment parenting. Review: From breastfeeding to the family bed to "wearing" your baby or toddler in a sling or backpack, ATTACHMENT PARENTING has all the information you will need to forge a loving, secure attachment with your young children. With expert advice from pediatricians, lactation specialists, and anthropologists--as well as words of wisdom from dozens of real families--this book offers a comprehensive overview of today's most talked-about nurturing style. Also included is an exhaustive list of print, Internet and support group resources for parents. Topics covered in the book include: *Preparing for Your New Baby *Choosing a Birth Setting *Bonding in the First Days After Birth *Choosing a Breastfeeding-Friendly Healthcare Provider *How to Know Whether You Need a Lactation Consultant *Making the Breast vs. Bottle Choice *Breastfeeding Advocacy *How to Get Your Baby to Sleep *The Family Bed *"Ferberizing" *Working and Breastfeeding *Breastpumps *Choosing a Baby Carrier *Child-Respectful Weaning *Breastfeeding Past the First Year and Beyond and much, much more!
Rating: Summary: Delivers what it promises: loving, appropriate childrearing. Review: Granju and Kennedy objectively explore the needs of infants and children in a thought-provoking, systematic book. As a mother of two, I found their words at the very least interesting, at best truly inspiring. I recommend their book to any parent of young children.
Rating: Summary: A manual for mindful parents Review: This book is intelligently written and thorough. It would make a fabulous basic infant care book for a new parent, as well as a thought-provoking read for an experienced one.
Rating: Summary: A long-overdue parenting guide Review: I wish that this book had been available when my children were born. It's all so natural and sensible, but somewhere along the way we lost it - snuggling, breast-feeding, sleeping with and thoroughly enjoying a vital, intense connection with our young. Attachment parented children are certain to become secure, centered, happy adults. Buy it and do it!
Rating: Summary: This book is especially timely. Review: I teach an Alternative Program for troubled youngsters. I only wish that each of their parents had had the benefit of this book during their child's most formative years. The author provides clear, sensible, and loving methods for nurturing, rather than simply rearing, a child. As we search for better ways to raise the next generation, this book should be a "must read" for all parents. It is a real treasure.
Rating: Summary: Fabulous! The best new parenting book in ages. Review: I highly recommend this book to *all* expectant and new parents. I loved the information on the family bed, infant sleep patterns, breastfeeding..and everything else. The writing is clear and fun to read and the comments from other "real" parents made it more believable to me. This is my new favorite parenting book. I think it's destined to be a classic.
Rating: Summary: I was skeptical but this book is great Review: While I was pregnant, I read lots of books on baby and child care. I had heard of "attachment parenting" and it sounded sort of strange to me. A friend with wonderful kids I like a lot recommended this book to me and I read it cover to cover as soon as I brought it home. Being a nurse, I loved the great medical references backing up all the book's suggestions. Plus, that's really what the author does. She suggests. She never says that there is only one "right" way to do anything. She encourages parents to become informed, get to know their own baby and then parent in the ways that feel right for their family. She talks about her own chldren and she includes many, many real life examples from other families who talk about how attachment parenting works for them. Basically, the list of chapters serves as a "menu" of potential parenting options. As she says, some people may breastfeed but not sleep with their babies. Some may use a sling *and* a stroller. But if you do choose to nurse past babyhood or sleep with your baby, this book will give you all the info to support and help you with your decision. This would be the perfect book to give a mother in law who keeps bugging you about why you are still nursing or why you don't let the baby cry himself to sleep. This is a well written, well documented, gentle book. If some other reviewers found it threatening or preachy, it might be their own deeply ingrained prejudices or defenses butting heads with a book that clearly challenges a lot of what we Americans believe to be the gospel truth of child care. I loved it and highly recommend it.
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