Saturday, January 4, 2014

Beyond the Sling by Mayim Bialik

Bialik gives complete advice on how to work with "attachment parenting." She and husband always have taken care of the kids with no outside help. Emphasis on breast-feeding, home schooling, whole family bed, non-toilet training, and gentle discipline.

Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom,but she definitely didn't follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead, Mayim got her PhD in neuroscience from UCLA, married her college sweetheart, and had two kids. Mayim then did what many new moms do—she read a lot of books, talked with other parents, and she soon started questioning a lot of the conventional wisdom she heard about the “right” way to raise a child. That's when she turned to attachment parenting, a philosophy and lifestyle popularized by well-known physicians like Dr. William Sears and Dr. Jay Gordon. 

To Mayim, attachment parenting's natural, child-led approach not only felt right emotionally, it made sense intellectually and instinctually. She found that when she followed her intuition and relaxed into her role as a mother instead of following some rigid parenting script, both she and her children thrived. Drawing on both her experience as a mother and her scientific background, Mayim presents the major tenets of attachment parenting, including: 

CO-SLEEPING

BREASTFEEDING 

BABY WEARING

GENTLE DISCIPLINE