Parenting Quote by William Sears

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

— Hanna Rosin

“When we focus narrowly on what we should be doing, we become blind to our attachment relationship with our children and its inadequacies. Parenthood…

— Gabor Maté

“Without attachment, the parent succeeds at most in cowing a child into obedience, at the price of grave damage to the relationship and to…

— Gabor Maté

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal. The intimacy…

— Germaine Greer

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long…

— Sarah Ruhl

“The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I…

— Rajneesh

“Attachment, we have noted, does its work invisibly. People who out of pure instinct have created a good attachment relationship with their child will…

— Gabor Maté

“Attachment divides the child's world into those the child likes and those the child is indifferent to, those who attract and those who repel,…

— Gabor Maté

“A mother who wants to hold her baby most of the time is judged eccentric and often accused of ‘spoiling’ him. The separation of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between two people,…

— Sandra Scarr