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Attachment Parenting Can Reduce Mental Health Problems

Don Patrick January 8, 2020

Attachment parenting revolves around responding to your baby’s needs and having close physical contact with them.

This can take the form of co-sleeping, breastfeeding, and baby-wearing when you carry a child around with you in a harness or sling.

The child-rearing was pioneered by American pediatrician Dr. William Sears, and scientists have been debating the benefits over the years.

Do some believe that it is the ideal way to raise secure and independent children, but is it best for your baby?

Attachment Parenting Can Reduce Mental Health Problems

Lying down with your kids until they drift off is not a bad habit, according to scientistsCredit: Getty – Contributor

Attachment Parenting Can Reduce Mental Health Problems

Attachment parenting can take the form of co-sleeping, breastfeeding, and baby-wearing   Credit: Getty – Contributor

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, claims there’s evidence that attachment parenting helps kids be successful as adults.

She wrote in Psychology Today: “When you separate the popular exaggerations of AP from the more objectively oriented scientific studies, it’s a sensible approach that fosters physical and psychological health in children.

“We do know from extensive research … that securely attached adults have happier and less conflict-ridden lives. There’s even research to suggest they may be better parents themselves.”

And she’s not the only one to write about the positive results of attachment parenting.

Patrice Marie Miller and Michael Lamport Commons at Harvard Medical School conducted a study in 2010 on the child-rearing method.

They said: “[The benefits] include less exposure to stress, which affects [sic] brain development and later reactions to stress. This has been shown to reduce mental health problems in later development.

“Another important psychological benefit is secure attachment, which is the tendency of the child to seek contact with a parent when distressed and to be effectively consoled by that contact.

“The result of more effective emotion regulation and secure attachment … is that children engage more effectively with essential developmental tasks, including peer relationships and schooling.”

Attachment Parenting Can Reduce Mental Health Problems

Tamara Ecclestone is a fan of attachment parenting for daughter SophiaCredit: Instagram

And lots of celebrities have got behind the trend too.

Tamara, the millionaire daughter of Bernie Ecclestone, who has an estimated £300million fortune, is also a strong believer in attachment parenting.

She said that daughter Sophia sleeps in her and husband Jay Rutland’s marital bed, and has done since she was six months old.

Tamara said: “She goes in the middle and takes up most of the bed. I just sleep on the side.

“It hasn’t really affected the romance. You learn to adapt and change. Obviously, it’s different, but it’s still there and we do still make time for each other. Just not as much.”

Of course, what works for one child might not work for another, so it’s important to respond to your youngster and adapt your style accordingly.

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