Not exact matches
In an attempt at being fair and even handed courts tend to divide time between
parents with little understanding that
nighttime separation
from an attachment figure creates stress and is qualitatively very different
from daytime separation.
With a little help and support
from parents, most children leave their
nighttime fears behind.
Otherwise well - adjusted young children frequently experience anxiety when they are separated
from their
parents (Jenni et al 2005; Ainsworth et al 1978), and most children also experience
nighttime fears.
Some
parents report that travel cribs helped their kids» transition
from their
parents» room back to their own rooms after some weeks with nightmares,
nighttime accidents, or other sleep problems.
But
parents in the control condition were free to solicit advice
from their regular medical providers, and they were free to adopt any
nighttime strategies they wished.
I was also often alone with
nighttime parenting since Husband was coming and going
from work at all hours of the night.
I know
from my evaluation interviews with
parents of babies with Flat Head Syndrome and Torticollis that most
parents don't realize how much time their babies spend in the same position in various pieces of gear until they really stop and total it up - car seat time,
nighttime in the Rock»n Play, awake time in an infant swing.
While we're on the topic of
nighttime parenting, here is something Steph
from Grace For My Sheep wrote about sleep training.
However, my
nighttime parenting habits are currently under aggressive attack
from the experts, with everyone
from pediatricians to the U.S. government now terrorizing mothers around the issue of co-sleeping.
Ezzo writes that «Between seven and nine weeks,
parents [who have followed «Babywise» recommendations
from birth] can expect [baby's]
nighttime sleep cycles to be a continuous 7 - 8 hours.
Whether you're losing sleep
from nighttime nursing sessions, or losing sleep
from worry, or simply worn out
from chasing a toddler around all day —
parenting = being run down.
But he had felt that night, while his wife kept the children over by the road — he had rushed them
from the house when he saw that the barn was on fire — as he watched the enormous flames flying into the
nighttime sky, then heard the terrible screaming sounds of the cows as they died, he had felt many things, but it was just as the roof of his house crashed in, fell into the house itself, right into their bedrooms and the living room below with all the photos of the children and his
parents, as he saw this happen he had felt — undeniably — what he could only think was the presence of God, and he understood why angels had always been portrayed as having wings, because there had been a sensation of that — of a rushing sound, or not even a sound, and then it was as though God, who had no face, but was God, pressed up against him and conveyed to him without words — so briefly, so fleetingly — some message that Tommy understood to be: It's all right, Tommy.
This intelligent and obedient dog inherits the virtues
from both
parent breeds that one can expect
from a pet dog, ready to do anything for the «master», they would even alert them barking at strange noises, especially during
nighttime, making them a great guard dog.
So if we define «attachment
parenting» as a kind of frenetic attempt to deliver fast responses (including unnecessary intrusions that prevent babies
from developing patterns of consolidated,
nighttime sleep), we have little reason to think this would benefit families.