Tips on Attachment Parenting

Attachment parenting is a parenting style in which the parent has prolonged periods of close contact with the child as an infant. Attachment parenting creates, enforces and continues a lifelong bond between parent and child. Attachment parenting requires a great deal of devotion, but it is a parenting method that helps the child feel secure, and loved, which encourages self esteem and confidence which will benefit the child throughout life as he makes his way in the world. Below are tips on how to use attachment parenting.

As soon as the baby is born you should hold him on your chest, and continue to hold him. This is the time when the parent will harvest his parenting skills, and will learn how to be sensitive to the child. During this time the child will be very young, but will be able to recognize the parent through smell, and voice. It is important for the parent to bond with the child right after birth.

Breastfeeding is a personal choice but should be done if possible. Breastfeeding calls for the time of ultimate bonding; it brings parent and child together as one. Fathers can bond through bottle feeding. Young infants will find solace, protection, comfort, and love, upon the soft warm skin of their loving mother. As the child gets a bit older he will be able to focus his eyes on you, and that moment when the child stares back into your eyes is so precious, the child is able to see who is nurturing him, and that face will remain an essential image in his mind.