The choice of parenting style you make as a parent has a major influence on your children’s development, their behavioural patterns, and even how they relate to the outside world.
This makes it pertinent for parents to pay attention to their parenting style. It is widely advised that parents should be actively involved in the lives of their young ones, building bonds and closeness. Attachment parenting encourages this.
Attachment parenting is an approach to parenting that focuses on the physical and emotional needs of the child. It aims to create emotional and physical bonds between the child and parents. It is often characterised by co-sleeping, responsiveness, timely breastfeeding, baby-wearing, nurturing touch, and positive discipline. This style of parenting allows parents to be high on kindness and love.
Why you should choose attachment parenting
It solidifies the parent-child relationship
Being sensitive and responsive to the needs of a child creates a special bond between the parent and the child. The child is not afraid to approach his parents; he feels safe and secure with his parents and learns that he can rely on them. When older children of attached parents have problems, they can approach their parents with confidence and seek advice.
It improves children’s development
In attachment parenting, skin-to-skin contact between mother and child is often practiced. This practice has a positive effect on the development of the child’s brain; it calms and stabilizes their body temperature. Kids in this setting cry less because they feel secure in their connection with their parents, so they spend more time learning and developing themselves.
Happy/Kind Kids
Kids that go through attachment parenting are often very happy and kind. This is mostly because they have experienced love and warmth from the people that mattered the most, their parents. They are always willing to help other people. We can say that attached kids are emotionally raised well.
It builds confidence.
Children who go through attachment parenting often exhibit high self-esteem and confidence levels, mostly because their parents pay attention to their needs. They see their parents show up for them and, in turn, grow into confident individuals who have little or no issues going off on their own.
Smart Kids
Attachment parenting produces children with a high level of intelligence and smartness. During infancy, a child’s brain experiences the most growth, and at this point, a child that experiences skin-to-skin contact and high responsiveness from his parents will learn faster and more efficiently. Skin-to-skin contact has a beneficial effect on the development of the child’s brain.
Attachment parenting seeks to promote family practices that create strong bonds and connections between parents and their children. Children are constantly in high need of attention and care, and attachment parenting advises that parents should be responsive to these needs in different ways.
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