Quotes About Attachment Parenting

#1. Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Mayim Bialik

#2. Since Jeannie is a big believer in attachment parenting and I'm a spineless coward, we have instituted an open-door policy, meaning if one of our kids has a nightmare, they are welcome to come in our room and pee in our bed. Luckily this only happens every night.

Jim Gaffigan

#3. Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.

Sarah Ruhl

#4. Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

Hanna Rosin

#5. My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

Alanis Morissette

#6. I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that ... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

Mayim Bialik

#7. Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#8. Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.

Ellen Key

#9. The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.

Kelly Bartlett

#10. To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

Kate Christensen

#11. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

#12. Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ...

J.K. Rowling

#13. You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Hillary Jordan

#14. I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Mayim Bialik

#15. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#16. I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

Amy Adams

#17. Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach.

Asa Don Brown

#18. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.
Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein

#20. Others declare good intentions

Jonathan Kellerman

#21. Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open.
Have you been watching Oprah again?

James Patterson

#22. I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

Young Buck

#23. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

Elisabeth Badinter

#24. The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Heaven is dancing
Dancing and laughing,
Ocean and land
Are dancing along,
Undulating to the breath of the sky.

Ilchi Lee

#26. It takes eternity to make a man despair.

Fulton J. Sheen

#27. My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

Heather O'Rourke

#28. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6

Seneca.

#29. We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

John Jackson Miller