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Appreciating life as a mother and learning every day.
Before attachment parenting, Jean Liedloff presented the continuum concept. In her book, The Continuum Concept (Da Capo Press, 1986), Jean Liedloff described a peaceful way of living with children, observed during her time with an indigenous South American people, the Yequana. She proposed that we are all born with instinctual expectations of reliable, responsive care, including an in-arms period (babywearing), breastfeeding on-cue, a family bed (cosleeping), etc.
She further proposed that when babies are consistently ignored by caregivers, they learn to disregard their own needs and sense of worth, and that toddler tantrums, considered normal in Western cultures, result from confusion and frustration from not experiencing the natural human expectations for love and freedom.
Whereas attachment parenting tends to focus on the child, the continuum concept is family-centered.
In general, the ‘attachment parenting’ approach to raising children is characterized by practices that demonstrate awareness of and responsiveness to a young child’s needs. This awareness and responsiveness relies on a strong, foundational bond between mother and baby.
Dr. William Sears, who coined the term ( The Attachment Parenting Book. Little, Brown and Company, 2001), listed seven fundamental practices, or ‘attachment tools’ for developing and supporting an attached relationship between caregiver and child.
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