In reality, however, I'm holding down a high grade point average at one of the nation's top liberal arts schools, looking to become a professor and planning to marry my significant other of three years. The only real problem I'm dealing with right now is an unnatural fear of bearing children of my own and as a result becoming obsessed with the countless minutiae involved in raising them in the prescripted, small-minded manner dictated by the gurus of attachment parenting. Sleeping with the baby seems like it will be easier than getting out of bed to feed it in the middle of the night, wearing it in a sling seems more convenient than negotiating a stroller on buses and stairs, attending it when it cries certainly seems preferable to listening to it yell. However, I want to point out that many of us that consider ourselves attachment parents also do work outside the home and do not consider this to be inconsistent. Just as staying home doesn't equal attachment parenting, neither does attachment parenting mean staying home.
Child care is a shared responsibility within the community.
I strongly believe that children can form strong bonds with multiple caregivers. Attachment parenting is about meeting your children's needs, not some strict exclusionary definition. We're hardly wealthy, either. All rights reserved.