BABY BS OF ATTACHMENT PARENTING

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BABY BS OF ATTACHMENT PARENTING

• Birth Bonding
• Breastfeeding
• Babywearing
• Bed Sharing
• Believe Babys Cries
• Beware of Baby Trainers
• Balance

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BABY BS BECOME CHILDHOOD CS

• Caring Kids
• Compassionate Kids
• Communicative Kids
• Connected Kids
• Comfortable with Intimacy
• Confident Kids
• Confident Parents

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PATTERNS OF ASSOCIATION

• Childhood
• A Continuous Videotape
• What do you want your child to replay?

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SCIENCE SAYS RESPONSIVENESS IS THE KEY

• The single most important influence on a childs
  intellectual development is the responsiveness of
  the mother to the cues of her baby.
• (Lewis)

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AP BABIES ARE SMARTER
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ATTACHMENT TIP

• Attachment parenting helps the developing brain
  make the right connections.

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SCIENCE SAYSConnected Kids are More Successful

• Play Better with Peers
• Better Students
• More Resilient
• Better Behaved
• Better Lovers
• Become Connected Parents
• AP Blueprint for Future Relationships

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EMPATHY AND COMPASSION

• Raise Kids Who Care
• Infancy Planting Capacity to Care Baby Bs
• How Would You Feel If?
• Raise Siblings Who Care Role Playing
• Play Empathy Games

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AP BABIES ARE HEALTHIER
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SCIENCE SAYSAP SEEK MEDICAL CARE MORE WISELY

• Securely attached infants had ½ the number of
  visits to the ER or doctors office.

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DR. BILLS ADVICE

• Spend the early months teaching new parents
  Attachment tools. Then sit back and listen to
  what they have to teach you.

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AP CHILDREN BEHAVE BETTER

• Know your child
• Get behind the eyes of your child
• Encourages obedience
• Helps discipline difficult child
• Promotes trust
• Shape rather than control child
• We principle mutual trust

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SCIENCE SAYS AP INFANTS THRIVE

• AP infants have best cortisol balance
• Separated infants had too high or too low
  cortisol
• Prolonged high stress hormones slow growth and
  depress immunity
• AP infants higher growth hormones and brain
  enzymes
• Conclusion mother acts as regulator of infants
  disorganized physiology.

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AP CHILDREN ARE FULL

• CARE FULL
• RESOURCE FULL
• RESPECT FULL
• THOUGHT - FULL

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AP PROMOTES EMPATHY

• Sensitivity
• Moral reasoning breech of trust
• AP a moral inheritance
• Think before you act

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AP IS CONTEMPORARYHIGH TOUCH vs. HIGH TECH
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AP PROMOTES INTIMACY
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AP CHILDREN ARE ABLE

• RESPONSE ABLE
• ADAPT ABLE
• CAP ABLE
• APPROACH ABLE
• SENS ABLE

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AP CHILDREN COMMUNICATE BETTER

• Listen attentively
• Listen empathetically
• Think before they speak
• Communicate also with body language (touch)
• Speak appropriately and tactfully
• Their tongues dont get them in trouble

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AP AND QUIRKY KIDS

• Multiple intelligences
• Discovering childs special something
• Frame child positively
• Think through what youre about to do
• Special needs children

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ATTACHMENT TIPThe RR of Discipline

• For AP parents and their children, discipline is
  based more on their relationship than on a set of
  rules.

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IM TIRED OF DOING THE JOB HIS MOTHER SHOULD
HAVE DONE.Mother in our Practice
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RELATIONSHIPS, NOT STUFF, BUILDS BRIGHTER BRAINS
AND MORE SUCCESSFUL KIDSDr. Bill
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SUCCESSTHE CAPACITY TO CARE