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Detachment Parenting: A New Trend in Parenting
By Patty Malowney
On first glance, you would think that a “detached parent” was an uncaring or uninvolved parent. Detachment parenting seems almost as if it was created specifically to rebut the attachment parenting model that has grown to be so popular. However, according to Heidi Smith Luedtke, Ph.D., author of How to Teach Your Kids to be Safe from Predators
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