num_pages: 272
description: A funny honest and practical guide to attachment parenting from actress mother and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik.Mayim Bialik was the child star of the popular 1990s TV sitcom Blossom but she definitely didnt follow the typical child-star trajectory. Instead Mayim got her PhD in neuroscience from UCLA married her college sweetheart and had two kids. Mayim then did what many new moms doshe read a lot of books talked with other parents and she soon started questioning a lot of the conventional wisdom she heard about the right way to raise a child. Thats when she turned to attachment parenting a philosophy and lifestyle popularized by well-known physicians like Dr. William Sears and Dr. Jay Gordon.To Mayim attachment parentings natural child-led approach not only felt right emotionally it made sense intellectually and instinctually. She found that when she followed her intuition and relaxed into her role as a mother instead of following some rigid parenting script both she and her children thrived. Drawing on both her experience as a mother and her scientific background Mayim presents the major tenets of attachment parenting CO-SLEEPINGHow to avoid sleep training and get a great nights sleep for the whole family.BREASTFEEDINGLearn how to listen to your babys cues rather than sticking to a rigid scheduleand why people on airplanes love a nursing mother.BABY WEARINGHow to wear your baby in a sling or a wrap to develop a closer bond with your childits possible even for mamas with bad backs (and with big babies)!GENTLE DISCIPLINE How to get your child to behave without yelling threats or time-outsit really can be done.Mayim describes the beauty simplicity and purposefulness of attachment parenting and how it has become the guiding principle for her family. Much more than a simple how-to parenting guide Beyond the Sling shows us that the core principles underlying attachment parenting are universal and can be appreciated no matter how you decide to raise your child.
language: English
title: Beyond the Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way
publisher: Gallery Books