CIO and Attachment: Is This What We Should Be Looking At?
Most people worry about sleep training affecting their attachment, but we don't see the in the literature. Why is that? And is that even what we should be concerned with?
Nighttime Parenting and Attachment: A Role for Maternal Responsiveness?
The question of whether and how nighttime parenting affects attachment is still unclear. I review a study that helps elucidate at least part of this issue.
Building Attachment in Child Care Settings
Building attachment is a critical piece to transitioning to other care - allocare or child care - and knowing how to promote this can help with these transitions and how to select a caregiver that will facilitate this.
Babywearing: Not Just a Fad, but a Means of Connection
Babywearing may be as old as humankind, but it still garners controversy as a parenting tool. New research may help push forward the idea that it's not just about convenience.
The Sleep-Needs Connection: Let’s Not Throw Parents Under the Bus Please
A new "gentle" approach to sleep suggests that if parents meet all their child's needs, sleep will follow. However, I disagree and believe this type of approach can actually harm families. Here's why.
Why Punishment Doesn’t Work
Lots of people still maintain that punishment is necessary is raising children. Here is why it isn't.
Guest Post: A Responsive Settling Story
One woman's experience with responsive settling and the take-home messages she got from that that she can share with others.
Shifting Priorities: Why Sleep Isn’t the Most Important Thing for Your Child
"What is most important for your child's development?" If you answered sleep, I think we need to talk.
Guest Post: Going Against the Tide of Mainstream Parenting
Going against the mainstream can be very hard, as mom and clinical counselor Fiona Griffin shares in her story of how she learned to find her own peaceful path in parenting.
Controlled Crying, Cortisol, and Attachment: A Critical Look
New research is making the rounds claiming that there are no negative effects to controlled crying, and the press is lapping it up. The question is: Does the claim hold up?