http://www.blogher.com/sarah-palin-and-attachment-parenting-red-and-blue-make-purple Comments for "Sarah Palin and Attachment Parenting - Red and Blue Make Purple" en http://www.blogher.com/sarah-palin-and-attachment-parenting-red-and-blue-make-purple <p>Sarah Palin fascinates me. A conservative woman and an ambitious, working Mom. It doesn't fit into the every day definitions of how we divide the red and the blue and I love reading about how people react to her. It got me to thinking, I wonder what the Attachment Parenting folks think?</p> <p>I've said already in this <a href="http://www.gracefulparenting.net/2007/12/02/book-review-the-baby-book/">post</a>, that if I met Dr. Sears, the father of Attachment Parenting, I would punch him...</p> <p></p> <p>I believe his basic premise, that Moms need to breast feed, co-sleep and wear their babies in order to develop a healthy attachment to their baby is just plain crap. I spent a lot of time, beginning with Dr. Sears' own web site, looking for the research that supports this and it doesn't exist. There is research like this - Co-sleeping parents have more parenting interactions with their baby during the night. Oh, my, did a researcher really spend money to figure that out? And that is SOOOOOOOOOO far from proving that overnight parenting interactions make any difference in the healthy attachment between Mom and baby.</p> <p>Why punch him? Because he says...</p> <p>Read more at <a href="http://www.gracefulparenting.net/2008/09/08/sarah-palin-and-attachment-parenting-red-and-blue-make-purple/" target="_blank">Graceful Parenting</a>, including why it is better for red and blue to make purple.</p> http://www.blogher.com/sarah-palin-and-attachment-parenting-red-and-blue-make-purple#comments Media &amp; Journalism Mommy &amp; Family News &amp; Politics attachment parenting Dr. Sears Martha Sears red and blue states Sarah Palin Gender Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:30:39 -0500 Graceful Parenting 53476 at http://www.blogher.com