[Resi]

What do you lean more towards?

[LisanAndy]

I'd say I'm a combination..

ATTATCHMENT PARENTING- These values are interpreted in a variety of ways. Many attachment parents also choose to live a natural family living (NFL) lifestyle, such as natural childbirth, home birth, stay-at-home parenting, co-sleeping, breastfeeding, babywearing, homeschooling, unschooling, the anti-circumcision movement, the anti-vaccination movement, natural health, cooperative movements, and support of organic food.

I'm a SAHM, I cosleep, I'll BF this time (if all goes well), I babywear, and we are leaning towards homeschooling. We also try to discipline with explaining, love, and getting down to their level and it works very well. We will only use a swat on the hiney if it's absolutely necessary which hasn't been needed.

TRADITIONAL PARENTING- I couldn't find info on this (maybe I suck at searching LoL) but here is what I myself know about traditional parenting...
I do believe in CIO at a certain age and only for a certain length of time. I use disposable diapers, we vaccinate, and I have no problem not BF and using formula. We have her sleep in her crib after the first few months.

[♥Ashley♥]

I will be more of an AP mommy when the time comes for sure!

[thepinkleprechaun]

I try to be as AP as possible. The reason I say that is because I struggle with my temper and how to discipline my children because of the way I was raised. My parents were very traditional and my father was borderline abusive, and I have a lot of problems because of that. But so far the way I parent is night and day compared to the way I was parented.

We do:
Co sleep
Breastfeed
Baby wear
Cloth Diaper
Organic baby food/homemade baby food
No circumcision
No spanking
Delayed/selective vaccinations

I voted AP, but I flex according to our needs. I know that emotionally I will be more AP as he grows.

[Perfectly~Flawed]

I'll say its a laid back combo...

[amazing_love]

I don't know much about them specifically but i'd say i'll be a little of both. I will breastfeed, be a SAHM, and we won't spank. However i will vaccinate, circumcise, use disposable diapers, and do not plan on co-sleeping.

ETA: Never mind, i figured out what babywearing was and i definitely plan on doing it!

[**Jenn**]

I'd say I'm definitely more AP.

We do: co-sleeping, don't CIO ever, full term breastfeeding, baby wearing, cloth diapering (most of the time anyway), delayed/selective vaccs, no spanking, gentle discipline, homemade baby food, SAHM, natural birth--2 successful so far and hoping I get my homebirth next time!, and seriously thinking of homeschooling.

On the TP side we do circumcize and I have raised my voice at the boys and lost my temper from time to time but I'm really working on it and I always make sure I apoligize to them for yelling.

I grew up in a very TP home and while that was fine and worked for my parents it doesn't work for us and our kids and its not how we choose to parent them.

ETA: Krista, baby wearing is using a sling or wrap to carry your baby on your body instead of using a stroller.

[soImarriedAnerd]

I (as of now LOL) think I will be more of an AP mom, but I'm not anti-traditional. I guess I should have voted both then?! I put AP.
I plan to not-circ, baby wear, bedshare, BF, selective/delayed vacinnes, no CIO, cloth diapers, maybe a little homeschooling, gentle discipline (well I'm going to TRY that at least, I figure each kid is different). Oh and hopefully a natural birth!

But then I really don't know what the main traditional parenting things are. But nothing in my life seems to be traditional!! LOL

[thepinkleprechaun]

OH yeah! Forgot to add natural childbirth to that, I have my medal all ready to go

[BambolinaItaliana]

I am def both....
I cloth diaper, breastfeed, no circumcision here, SAHM, homemade baby food all the way.......
but on the other hand I do believe in public schools, vaccinations, once in a blue moon we spank and there are time outs, sleep in their own rooms, and I also let my children cry themselves to sleep ( I only do this when I know they are tired and never when it is a different cry, and if they cry for more than 5 min or their crys turn hard I will pick him up) I love the fact that my child can fall asleep on her own!! I am also for drugs all the way during labor, I knew I would never be able to do without!

combo

[Frozendesire]

For sure both here!!

I baby wear, I BF, I'm a SAHM, I had both my babies med free (so that's natural right?), don't use CIO.

We circumsize, vaccinate, crib/toddler bed sleep.

We do deepen our tone of voice to be "sterner" with Curtis when he isn't obeying. We also do hand swatting and some bum swatting. We also explain and get down to his level.

We always have the TV on as I would go insane with out some noise haha. Curtis watches cartoons and movies and listens to music whenever for how ever long. No time limits on it. I just don't care haha. We play more and interact more then just sitting in a zombie state

[IamMom]

I voted traditional cause we are definintely more traditional. But there are certain traditional things I don't do:

- No spanking (however I do timeouts and loss of priveleges and this works really well)
- I do believe you have to be a parent first and a friend second - I think sometimes truly strict traditional parents don't believe you should be "friends" with your kids at all.....I try to parent as my parents parented me.....we were and still are very close and they did alot with us as children.
- I am not against baby wearing - I didn't do it alot with DS not sure why - but with this baby I may need to since I already have one child I will need "hands free" for - and I may not want to be lugging around a big ole stroller with two kids all the time!

However - like traditional parents I am for:

-All and any drugs during labor and delivery that I am allowed to have!!!
-Formula over breast feeding at a certain age - I had problems BF'ing and didnt' care that we had to do formula/bottles very early
- CIO at the appropriate age and using an appropriate method (Ferber)
-sleep in own bed
-vaccinations
-circumcision
-non-homeschooling (we're looking at a charter school or a private school - DH and I both went to private parochial schools - he also did have a bit of public school and homeschooling which he is totally against (homeschooling).
-being a working mom and loving it
-disposable diapers and store bought baby food!

*I'm basically not very naturalistic and not very emotionally driven...I'm more practically driven...however, I love my kids more than anything and feel that for a working mom I do a great job connecting with my son and spending time with him!

[*vi]

i voted combination because I lean more towards AP but there are some traditional aspects that I'm sure I will use (sleeping in their own beds, vaccinations, non-homeschooling - although I would prefer to send them to private school) but I hope to BF, babywear, be a SAHM and no CIO. So I guess we'll see how that works out, if I end up doing all that.

[Adriana's Mommy]

I voted traditional

- Spanking only when necessary, I believe in timeouts and loss of privileges
- I do believe you have to be a parent first and a friend second
- All and any drugs during labor and delivery.. My inducement lasted 32 hours, I doubt any one can go that long without some sort of pain relief..
- Formula when BF can't be done.. Adriana was formula fed and far from being fat.. She's actually smaller then majority of kids her age..
- CIO at the appropriate age and using an appropriate method
- sleep in own bed
- vaccinations
- circumcision
- being a working mom and loving it
- disposable diapers and store bought baby food!
- Public Schools.. I plan on Adriana going to our Charter Academy when she goes into the 6th grade.. Also, Adriana will be going to pre-school when she turns 2 years old.. She's going to be having a early start..

I suppose I should state why I am both.

More AP:
Cloth diaper
BF
No CIO in most cases
Feed on demand
Natural childbirth (unless I change my mind LOL)
No cricing
No spanking
Babywearing

More Traditional:
If and when it comes to be the right time, we will teach self soothing
No co-sleeping
We will vax--but selective and delayed (I am a micro major here, which is why I stay out of vacc debates--the ignorance I tells ya! People read studies and don't even understand what they are reading, or more importantly, what they are not reading. Ok I am done )

[niknok]

I lean more towards AP. I cloth diaper, BF, baby wear, plan to make my own organic baby food, and had a natural birth. We are sorta delaying vaccs. He'll never get more than one at a time. I don't plan to do any chicken pox or Hepatitis vaccines.


I hope to use gentle positive discipline. I'm not a big fan of CIO, but think it has it's particular place for an older child. We don't cosleep. Drake has been in his crib since he was three weeks old. Up until that time he was in a bassinet beside our bed. He slept horrible in it, so we decided on an off chance one night to try the crib. He slept great, and we've never looked back.

ETA: No circ.

[*krista*]

I voted AP, but I haven't done all my research yet or made up my mind on everything. I know I want to BF, no spanking, be a SAHM, CD, selective/delayed vacs, probably won't circ, and right now I'm pretty sure I want to try for a natural birth. I will also probably do the baby wearing thing if my back holds up.

[SandKmommy]

I guess both, I dont know alot about them though cause I've never really classified myself as a style.

We co-slept till 10mo(still do occastionally)
Breastfed till self weened at 12.5mo
Non-Circed
SAHM
We tried baby wearing but with his torticollis, plagiocephally and macrocephally it was too hard and painful for him, hopefully Kieran wont have the same issues but she has a super high chance of having them


But we do Vaccinate on time unless we cant(I.e. his 18mo shots)
I raise my voice
And we do spank(2 swats on a diapered butt at most)
Disposable diapers
Store bought food
We've tried CIO off and on

We always have the TV on as I would go insane with out some noise haha. Curtis watches cartoons and movies and listens to music whenever for how ever long. No time limits on it. I just don't care haha. We play more and interact more then just sitting in a zombie state [/b]