Attachment Parenting: Attacks from all sides
For a long time now, I have been receiving Google email alerts for the keywords “attachment parenting”. I do not recommend that you do the same. I have noticed that the vast majority of these articles are completely negative. I am RARELY notified of articles in support of attachment parenting. I find this very interesting, albeit disappointing. It has surprised me because I now realize that it is not just certain religious groups that bash this parenting style, but the bashing also comes from the secular media. Hmph. Wonder why that makes me feel even more validated, although all I really need is to believe that attachment parenting is Scriptural.
“The aged women…teach the young women…to love their husbands, to love their children.” Titus 2:4
Hmmm… Women need to be taught to LOVE their husbands and children…
“Done prayerfully and with grace, connected parenting is truly a living spirituality! This style of parenting drives us to our knees and so brings us closer to heaven. It forces us to die to self again and again to meet the needs of God’s little creatures. It’s immediately easier to shout and/or hit and abuse our authority to put out the fires of our day. We can stop the behavior through fear and punishment. But that doesn’t really require any heroic, saintly effort on our part, does it? Ultimately, it destroys the relationship with the child and it becomes for us the occasion of sin.” Elizabeth Foss
“But we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children.” 1 Thessalonians 2:7
“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” Isaiah 66:13
“As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.” Psalm 103:13
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Colossians 3:12-14
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18
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