Originally Posted by decobelle:
“How can anyone use attachment parenting for years? Should we be carrying teenagers around in slings? Co sleeping starts coming to a natural end at about 3 years old, as toddlers begin to want independence.
Fair enough if she'd only been doing it 2 weeks, but I'd say 2 years, with 2 kids, makes her quite an expert on the subject of attachment parenting.”
I think the argument is that there is no way that Peaches can state categorically that AP is the perfect way to raise children when her babies are both under three and there is no way yet to say if being glued to mommy for X number of years has affected them either positively or negatively.
Personally I feel there is a middle road to take where mothers can be in tune to their babies needs and express love and devotion without the 24 hr attachment and without the clear cold-heartedness KH exhibits regarding even her own children.
Peaches children might become serial killers or they might become scientists discovering cures for diseases.Or they might just be ordinary basic adults . There is no way of judging her method as yet .
The book I'm reading at present is the true story of a serial killer who constantly whines how his mommy and daddy neglected his psychological needs as a child, but one I read previously on yet another serial killer involved the killer claiming his mommy and daddy were TOO clinging and smothered him so much that he considered himself centre of the universe with a sense that anything he did was fine and dandy. YES, I know talking serial killers is extreme,but you get the gist.
My point is that Peaches cannot know if her AP way is best.
But Hopkins way def is not best in my opinion,far too cold.