Dr. Sears

The books by Drs Sears are awesome. The thing to remember, though, and that Dr Sears has tried to make a point of in recent years, is that the most important thing is that parents & baby & family are all doing what makes them feel comfortable, happy & right. Don’t get too wrapped up in trying to do *everything* that sits under the ‘attachment parenting’ umbrella.

Attachment parenting is about creating a strong trust bond with your child, not following a set of instructions. The ideas presented in any attachment parenting book or website are just ways that some people have used to help create that all-important bond.

And, you’ll find, if you follow your heart, most of the ideas presented are pretty much what you’d do, anyway, whether it was ‘AP’ or not.

What I love best about the Sears books, myself, is the one anecdote that they told about their older son, hearing their baby crying & going in to comfort it on his own. I love that the AP ideas that they used to raise him made him confident & caring enough to naturally want to use them himself.

You can’t learn to be a good parent from a book!

dr. sears’s The Baby Book.
it’s been my bible.