Thread: Attachment parenting : “Are you mom enough?”

The subjects on this week’s TIME cover aren’t models in pose. Jamie Lynne Grumet, photographed by Martin Schoeller with her 3-year-old son, is a mother from Los Angeles who subscribes to attachment parenting, the subject of staff writer Kate Pickert’s cover story.

Attachment parenting has been on the rise over the past two decades, since the publication of The Baby Book by Dr. Bill Sears and his wife Martha in 1992.

Its three main tenets are extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and “baby wearing,” in which infants are physically attached to their parents by slings.

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Explains in part why so many kids are gender confused

The complete opposite of how kids should be raised.

Indulging a kid of that age will surely lead to big problems later. Grotesque.

Arabs nurse all their lives.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Indulging a kid of that age will surely lead to big problems later. Grotesque.

What's the kid to do, get adopted by a less clinging mother? This is what JPPR2 has returned to, incredible.