What is the best attachment parenting book out there?

4 Comments

1. seattle mom says:

   February 22, 2012 at 4:59 am

   dr. sears’s The Baby Book.
   it’s been my bible.
2. silverfox9605 says:

   February 22, 2012 at 5:52 am

   You can’t learn to be a good parent from a book!
3. mgnavadomskis says:

   February 22, 2012 at 5:53 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.
4. mamamoon says:

   February 22, 2012 at 6:11 am

   Dr. Sears