![]() Today’s SPF post talks more about the Attachment Parenting Support Group Meeting that I attended yesterday. However, I was reminded of something yesterday, and I thought it was worth mentioning some thoughts over here for our Birth-Day focused readers. The first tenet of the Attachment Parenting lifestyle is “Prepare for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting”. If you are here, you are already researching your options and learning about pregnancy and childbirth. However, as we state in our About Us page, all these classes center on the Birth-Day experience. In the grand scheme of things, childbirth classes offer a lot of information about the First Day of the rest of your lives together as a family. That we know of, there is no class, manual or book that can possibly cover all the other things you need to know for the rest of the journey as parents and as a family. While you may not want to think too much about life beyond that day right now, I want to offer a few questions that might be starting point for discussion while you are pregnant. It may be helpful to know the areas that you and your partner agree on, and which topics you will want to explore further so you can come to a consensus. Tears and regret about the way a parenting moment happened can be minimized if you can have a non-emotional conversation and clarify both of your beliefs before you start down the path of your parenting journey.
These are a lot of questions…and I am guessing that you will not get through all of these in one session with your partner. Maybe you can print out this list and take turns picking a topic to discuss after dinner. I would love to hear how it goes: which questions were the most helpful to your discussion, and which questions you added to your list. Bruss and I can always use a good talk as we continue to grow as parents! When you are ready to do more reading about parenting, two books that I found very helpful were the 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman, and Parenting With Love and Logic by Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay. What are your concerns as you think about life beyond the Birth-Day? Please leave us a comment - it will be moderated and posted. *I think* that the amount of traffic you so generously
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