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What is Attachment Parenting?

Attachment parenting babies, toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged, and teenager children is a natural, instinctive approach to parenting and MAY involve breastfeeding, babywearing, and co-sleeping, BUT definitely embraces respectful communication, non-punitive guidance of behaviour, and a warm and nurturing, structured, parenting style, that includes nurturing response to both children's and parents' needs at the same time. It's a family-centerd parenting approach based on mutual respect between all family members.

Attachment Parenting has 8 ideals:

  • Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
  • Feed with Love and Respect
  • Respond with Sensitivity
  • Use Nurturing Touch
  • Ensure Safe Sleep Physically and Emotionally
  • Provide Consistent and Loving Care
  • Practice Positive Discipline
  • Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life

    • Our Vision

    Healthy, respectful, peaceful, nurturing, and educated families are the building blocks of a healthy and peaceful society.

    Our Mission

    We are a non-profit organization of parents and professionals dedicated to providing parents, caregivers, and organizations, support for their parenting practices and services, validation for their parenting choices and current evidence-based information in order to make the best decisions for their parenting practices. Our information is provided through print, online, classes, articles, books and speakers for parents, caregivers and organizations.

    What's New at Attachment Parenting Canada?

    Live, Interactive Webinars!

    Parenting Picnics ™ Webinar Series

    We are often asked to travel to present our classes. In response to this request, we are now offering live interactive webinars on every topic of parenting children age 0-25. Our Parenting Picnics ™ Webinar Series will be weekly, evenings, noon hour lunch'n'learns, or during afternoon naptime, and convenient for you and your partner! Packed with props, polls, videos and the chance to have your questions answered - anonymously. No more hassles getting childcare, transportation or exorbantly high costs to get research based parenting information.

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    To nurture a child.




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