Attachment Parenting

Attachment is the ‘it theory’ of parenting right now. As defined in the psychological sense, attachment theory says that a child must develop a psychological and emotional attachment to one of their primary caregivers to develop normally. Therapists have seen that people who fail to form attachments while infants are predisposed to mental illness starting as young as early adolescence. However, as with most forms of parenting theory, there is little in the way of experimentation or studies proving the efficacy of Attachment Parenting.   

So what’s my problem with it? Nothing, really. The theory warns people from being to pedantic when it comes to this theory. It tells people that you must do what is right for you and your family. This is why the final B was added to the mix. However, people aren’t like that. If we know anything about human nature, it is that we believe that what we are doing is right. We believe that our opinion is something we garnered from a burning bush and should be carved in stone. Therefore, Attachment Parenting parents tend to be the yahoos who condemn those who do not co-sleep or have to put their kids in day care at an early age. That’s right, technically these would be the fanatical Attachment Parenting parents.