Welcome to Attachment Parenting Canada ™
We are proud to be a member of 
and partnering with PACT
Parenting in the News
Attachment Parenting is big news right now! And so misunderstood...
Time Magazine: Are you Mom Enough? How old is too old to breastfeed? Global News, May 2012 Can Attachment Parenting be Harmful? Dr. Peter Nieman, from the Globe and Mail weighs in on the debate. Attachment Parenting Experts Weigh In Global News, May 2012 Does Parenting Style Matter? Alberta Prime Time, April 2012 Elisabeth Badinters Controversial Mothering Advice, Globe and Mail Newspaper, May 2012What is Attachment Parenting?
Attachment Parenting has 8 ideals:Please note that not one of the ideals states that people *have to* breastfeed for years, co-sleep and babywear in order to be attachment parents.
Those are attachment parenting “behaviours” that may be used to promote the attachment parenting style but are not mandatory and may be adapted to each families preferred needs. Parents who bottlefeed, use strollers, and cribs, will still be attachment parents if they respond to their children within the parameters of the eight ideals.
Attachment parenting is almost identical to mainstream parenting best practices in that a nurturing, warm, responsive parenting style has the best outcomes for children and that the only two critical differences in attachment parenting and mainstream parenting is that Attachment Parenting doesn’t promote crying-it-out methods of child sleep training and any type of punishment of children, including time-outs, consequences, etc.
Mainstream parenting in Canada alignes with the World Health Organizations' recommendation that breastfeeding may continue for up to two years of age and beyond. Baby slings, wraps and carriers are well-entrenched in mainstream parenting practices. Just observe all the baby wearing in the newly released movie, "What to Expect When You are Expecting." As well, co-sleeping is very evident in mainstream parenting practices as a US National Sleep Survey shows that 70% of parents with children under 5 years of age, consistently get up at night to soothe their children as the result of nightmares, teething, separation anxiety and night terrors. Many of those parents sleep with their children at some point in the night.
Clearly, attachment parenting is pretty close to mainstream parenting.
For more information on Attachment Parenting, please contact:
Judy Arnall, President, Attachment Parenting Canada Association
Judy Arnall, Phone (403) 714-6766
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.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-centred parenting approach based on mutual respect between all family members.
What's New at Attachment Parenting Canada?
Live, Interactive Webinars!
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. Parenting Picnics ™ Webinar Series
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