What is the best attachment parenting book out there?
Mia asked:
Hi
Hi
I want a good attachment parenting book but there are so many to choose from.
Which one do you think is best?
Thanks
I know you can’t learn to be a good parent from a book but i just want to read a few books on different parental styles just in case. Thanks for you opinion anyway.
Alvin
September 27th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
dr. sears’s The Baby Book.
it’s been my bible.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:07 am
You can’t learn to be a good parent from a book!
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 am
The books by Drs Sears are awesome. The thing to remember, though, and that Dr Sears has tried to make a point of in recent years, is that the most important thing is that parents & baby & family are all doing what makes them feel comfortable, happy & right. Don’t get too wrapped up in trying to do *everything* that sits under the ‘attachment parenting’ umbrella.
Attachment parenting is about creating a strong trust bond with your child, not following a set of instructions. The ideas presented in any attachment parenting book or website are just ways that some people have used to help create that all-important bond.
And, you’ll find, if you follow your heart, most of the ideas presented are pretty much what you’d do, anyway, whether it was ‘AP’ or not.
What I love best about the Sears books, myself, is the one anecdote that they told about their older son, hearing their baby crying & going in to comfort it on his own. I love that the AP ideas that they used to raise him made him confident & caring enough to naturally want to use them himself.