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If you "attachment parent", the following may be of interest to you.
Otherwise, hit the delete button now.
>>"This is a chance to fight back against a mainstream culture which
assumes that bottle is as good as breast, co-sleeping is dangerous, and
babies and toddlers have to learn who's boss.">>>
Mary Ellen
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day
anyway,
so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important
thing.
--Barbara Bush

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:01:20 EST
> Subject: Stories for a Book by William Sears
>
> Bill and Martha Sears are currently collecting material for a book
> with a
> working title of "Kids Who Turned Out Right: What Their Parents Did."
> They've
> asked me, their long-time research assistant and editor, to collect
> stories
> and anecdotes from families who practice co-sleeping, gentle
> discipline,
> long-term breastfeeding, minimal mother-baby separation, etc., families
> who,
> in general, make babies and children their number-one priority.
> These might be stories about your own kids, or stories from your
> practice. They might be about kids who are grown-up, or nearly so, or
> about
> grade-school kids or even preschoolers and toddlers.
> Besides using anecdotal informtion, Bill is collecting research. He
> really wants to demonstrate that attachment parenting makes a
> difference.
> This book will be published by his regular publisher, Little Brown,
with
> all
> their resources for promoting the book and its ideas. This is a chance
> to
> fight back against a mainstream culture which assumes that bottle is as
> good
> as breast, co-sleeping is dangerous, and babies and toddlers have to
> learn
> who's boss.
> Is there something wonderful about your kids or about families
> you've
> seen in your practice that you'd like to share with Bill and Martha and
> their
> readers? Write your story or anecdote just the way you'd tell it to
> supportive friends-and send it to me, Gwen Gotsch, at
gwenrhoda@....
> If
> you'd like to use actual ink on paper, my mailing address is 747 N.
> Humphrey,
> Oak Park, IL 60302. Phone/fax 708-524-8795.
> Thanks--and don't wait too long-the manuscript is due at the
> publisher in
> late spring.