Category: ’Work and Family’
Working Outside of the Home
A reader asks our NPN Mentors about attachment parenting while working in a job. Read More…
3 Comments | Posted in Ask an NP Mentor, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Parenting Philosophies, Work and Family
Wordless Wednesday: Finding Balance
This week we asked you to share finding balance. Read more about balance in our resources and this week’s article. Link up! Read More…
3 Comments | Posted in Balance, Wordless Wednesday, Work and Family
Ready, Set, Pump!
Gretchen shares the tricks of the trade – the pumping breastmilk trade! Read More…
1 Comment | Posted in Activism, Balance, Breastfeeding Alternatives, Feeding With Love, Lactivism, Work and Family
Creating a Village: Sharing Attachment
Both asking for and then dealing with help caring for my daughter have been spiritual lessons. As an attachment parent, sharing her care has taught me a great deal about parenting and about myself. Read More…
3 Comments | Posted in Alternative Caregivers, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Consensual Living, Consistent Care, Equally Shared Parenting, Family Structure, Parenting Philosophies, Responding With Sensitivity, Work and Family
Role Reversal
I am a stay-at-home mom. When I speak those words, a 1950s stereotype pops into people’s heads. It’s true that my husband goes off to work and that I stay at home, but that’s where any similarity ends. Read More…
4 Comments | Posted in Balance, Family Structure, Homeschooling, Natural Learning, Parenting Philosophies, Radical Unschooling, Work and Family
Breastfeeding While Working
Our NPN mentors gave an expectant mother some tips and advice about breastfeeding and going back towork. Read More…
2 Comments | Posted in Alternative Caregivers, Ask an NP Mentor, Balance, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Alternatives, Consistent Care, Feeding With Love, Work and Family
The Importance of Attachment Caregiving
Guest writer Nada at miniMOMist shares her family’s experience of easing her daughter’s transition to nap time, both at home and with an “Attachment Caregiver” at daycare. Read More…
2 Comments | Posted in Alternative Caregivers, Attachment Parenting, Balance, Consistent Care, Parenting Philosophies, Work and Family
13 Ideas to Gently Manage Separation Anxiety in Preschoolers
If you’ve experienced a renewed bout of separation anxiety with your preschooler, you probably understand how frustrating it can be to address. We recently went through this with our own (then) three year old, and I’d like to share some ideas that friends offered on how to gently respond. Read More…
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Nap Battles
A peak inside Gretchen’s journey towards peaceful nap times with her young daughter. Read More…
12 Comments | Posted in Attachment Parenting, Balance, Consistent Care, Cosleeping, Parenting Philosophies, Routines and Schedules, Safe Sleep, Work and Family
Enlightened Parenting
Leaving behind what we believe *should be* allows us to embrace *what is* and, therefore, work as one with our child. Read More…
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