Attachment Parenting Works
What other way is there?
In my twenty-some-odd years of being in the parenting publishing world and even longer than that being a parent, I have come across some ludicrous articles.
One that still stands out to me is a piece by Erica Jong entitled, Mother Madness, which basically decried the idea of attachment parenting, the term originally coined by Drs. William and Martha Sears.
Jong believes that this way of parenting hurts women because its “expectations victimize women far more than men have ever done”.
Quite a huge stretch if you ask me, especially considering the fact that domestic violence is the leading cause of homicide for women globally, but that is material for another article.
First of all, I have to say if Dr. Sears never coined the term, I would be raising my kids through “attachment parenting”.
What other way is there? Detachment parenting? Absurd idea, although it seems some people, such as Jong, might endorse it.
Parenting is attachment no matter the age
When my children cry, feel hurt or sick, or are going through a tough time, now or at age 20 or 30, I will be there for them.
