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API of Stark County Likes: "Little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?" John Holt |
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API HOME API FORUMS BETSY STUDER'S BREASTFEEDING CENTER ALFIE KOHN AP'S KELLY MOM DR. SEARS LA LECHE LEAGUE PAM LEO CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE BABY WEARING JAN HUNT
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The mission of Attachment Parenting International (API)of Stark County, Ohio, is to educate and support all parents in Stark County and surrounding Counties, in raising secure, joyful, and empathic children in order to strengthen families and create a more compassionate world. We currently support this through phone, email and online support at API Global forums. These practices nurture and fulfill a child's need for trust, empathy, and affection, providing a lifelong foundation for healthy, enduring relationship.
Attachment Parenting International (API) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization, networking with parents, professionals and like-minded organizations around the world. In addition to providing assistance in forming attachment parenting support groups, API provides educational materials, research information, consultative, referral and speaker services to promote attachment parenting concepts.
API of Stark County
Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children
About the Book
Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children is the guidepost for attachment parenting, offering evidence-based parenting advice for raising more compassionate children. Authors and API co-founders Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker provide extensive research and facts, as well as personal anecdotes and tips, on how to incorporate attachment parenting practices in to everyday life.
In this book, you’ll learn:
- Important facts you need to know before and
- Strategies to strengthen the emotional bonds with your child
- How to be a more conscious parent with your children
- New information to help you make informed decisions
- How raising our children with empathy and respect can positively affect society
No other parenting book is as comprehensive in its scope, from an overview of attachment theory and current child development research to practical strategies for everyday situations. Attached at the Heart is a vital blueprint for change that begins at home.
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API of Stark County Leaders are available for support via phone or email if you are unable to attend a social.
WE HAVE REOPENED OUR YAHOO GROUP! November 2009
Back, due to popular demand, we have reopened our yahoo group. Please feel free to join and jump in on the already listing messages.
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Breastfeeding Recommended to Protect Infants During Swine Flu Outbreak
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/news/news.php#breastfeedingswineflu
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Blog??? From Wiki:
A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
For those of you who like to Blog, please join API:
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"Balancing Parent and Child Needs So Everyone Thrives" with Jan Hunt ~Nov 13, 2009
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5590/t/3434/l/eng/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=7669
Sign up to join API Live for a special Teleseminar TOMORROW, November 13 at 9PM EST / 6 PM PST as API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss balancing needs with Jan Hunt.
Submit your questions for Jan Hunt to API Live (apilive@attachmentparenting.org) in advance and we will try to address them during the call.
You can support API's mission and take advantage of the knowledge and experience API Live's special guest by registering today. Every dollar of your registration fee goes toward education, support and outreach for parents in need. And don't worry about last minute conflicts--everyone who registers will receive a link to download the MP3 the week after the event!
Dial-in details
After purchase, you will get an email with the link to the conference call dial-in details and within a few days of the event, each paid participant will get a link to download the MP3 of this exciting edition of Ask API Live!
Sign Up today for $19 ($9 for API members--so join today!). If you are not an API member, you will be able to join and register (for $44 total - a 25% savings!) via this link.
About Jan Hunt
Psychologist Jan Hunt, M.Sc., author of The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart and A Gift for Baby, offers telephone counseling worldwide, with a focus on attachment parenting and unschooling, and guided imagery sessions for emotional healing.
Jan has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and over twenty years of experience as a counselor and writer on parenting issues. She is the Director of The Natural Child Project and is on the Advisory Board of Attachment Parenting International.
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