Skinship

Skinship groups

Dear readers,

I would like to invite you to join us at Mother's click. I've created two goups for parents who believe in attachment parenting, want to share their ideas, ask for advice or just have a chat with similarly minded parents.

First group is called Skinship and can be found here. It is open for all English speaking readers who share passion for connected and respectful parenting, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing, cloth diapers or elimination communication and much more.

Since many of Skinship readers come from Slovenia and feel more comfortable communicating in Slovenian I've created a Slovene group called "Moja Mami". You can join us at MojaMami web page.

To join any of the groups you have to register here. You can also upload your picture. The web platform used at Mother's click enables us to use several services from posting notes, activities, managing group calendar, posting photos, posting reviews, and much more.

I wish you a great fun using the service and hope to meet you online soon.

Anja

Reading list

I've just added my reading list at Amazon.com. You can find it on the right side bar of the blog. By clicking on it you can access the list of the books that I recommend to pregnant women and parents. I hope you will find them useful. I am also adding book reviews to the blog. You can access them by clicking on "Books" under the "Categories".

As you probably noticed there is a countless number of books on pregnancy, birth and babies available on the market. They are often written by authors, who are not necessarily specialised in parenting and developmental psychology. There are many baby trainers out there giving detachment advice like "Get him on a schedule", "Don'ty carry her in a sling so much", "You shouldn't breastfeed for more than 10 min", "He should sleep through the night at 4 months" or "You should let her cry until she falls a sleep" and other quick-fix solutions. Such advice can lead to a short-term success but we should be aware of the long-term consequences of our parenting style. With the advances in neuro science, brain scans and developmental psychology we shouldn't be ignorant anymore. As parents we have a responsibility to educate ourselves. However, we should be careful when choosing our literature and other sources.

In my reading list you will mostly find books by reknown authors that support the principles of attachment parenting, build on the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology. Most of the books are based on years of scientific research. Sometimes I will also recommend some books that are not necessarily related to baby issues, but might be valueable for parents as well.

I will be very happy to read about books that you liked. You can reccomend them to other readers by posting "Comments". I look forward to read about your favourite books :-)

Mama Zofa

Association "Naravni začetki" published their new web page. Those of you who live in Slovenia might be interested in their activities...click the link below.

http://www.mamazofa.org/