Can you imagine if she had skipped the ceremonies due to pneumonia? The same people claiming she’s gravely ill would have downgraded her illness to a head cold and accused her of putting her own needs ahead of those who had died. She literally cannot fucking win with these dumbasses.

I’m not sure what I grew to hate more during my child’s first few years: The Business of Being Born, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, or The Baby Book. They all come from the same sanctimonious, there is only one right way and if your circumstances don’t allow you to do all or if you don’t want to do it all you have…

That’s great! We did a lot of AP style things with my 4 year old, and she is the most independent, outgoing kid that I’ve ever seen. Her first day of preschool, she ran into her classroom, and didn’t look back once, she’s never been afraid of anything or anyone (I’m trying to, uh, fix that?).

We are attachment parenting refugees. After nine miserable months we gave it up. And never looked back.

Yes!

“What most scientific studies conclude is that what matters is that you love your kids and want the best for them.”

I purposely avoided baby books for this reason. I baby wear, but don’t cloth diaper. He eats formula, but still gets rocked to sleep. Sometimes he gets to sleep in our bed, mostly he sleeps in a crib in his own room. We do what works for us and sometimes we change things that aren’t working. It’s the Rentaduckie…

I read Sears with my first kid, thinking it was just a regular mainstream baby book. While I have zero beef with attachment parenting as a general philosophy, Sears just disgusts me with his judgment and predictions of doom for working mothers, mothers who don’t or can’t breastfeed, mothers who choose to sleep train,…

lol! Some mothers go back to work because they have to go to work. Fuck this guy.

Sears’s philosophy was always informed by religious, patriarchal dogma. People just chose to ignore that because most people who practice AP that I know are fairly nonreligious hippies. As an nonreligious hippy, I get it. But it was always there. Mother is always best. Dad is just there. Mom has to be everything.…

She said she agreed with Sears’ parenting philosophy which claims there’s only one right way to parent. I think that advocating attachment parenting and treating Dr. Sears as a reliable, reasonable source on these things is dangerous. Dr. Sears is someone who opposes women working outside the home and sees it an…

Please never take your child to a daycare provider. In the home daycare business, we call attachment parents brat enablers. The children that come from those families are constantly miserable because suddenly, they’re in an environment where the world does not revolve around them. They have to sleep on their own,…

“[Some] mothers choose to go back to their jobs quickly simply because they don’t understand how disruptive that is to the well-being of their babies. So many babies in our culture are not being cared for in the way God designed, and we as a nation are paying the price.”

Because it’s fucking dangerous! The practices individually are great if it works for you, but that “attachment parenting” movement causes more depression in women and outright states that your baby will suffer if you go back to work. Not to mention it’s always the women who are giving up their time and energy to do…

They appropriated cultural practices of indigenous peoples and made it sound sciency and like it takes super special snowflake people to do it.

Good for you. But it’s bullshit. My non-attachment parented 3 year is thriving and awesome.

He’s kind of full of shit with the attachment mothering shit too.

Dr. Sears is a fucking dickhole. And attachment parenting is a gross term middle/upper class white ladies use to feel smug and superior to other mothers who either can’t or don’t want to practice it. So fuck him for that.

“I do think vaccines help with the public health and helping prevent the occasional fatality,”