Welcome to Attachment Parenting International

API Special Tributes Honor Your Parents and Help Parents in Need this May and June

In May and June API celebrates Mothers and Fathers. Make a donation to API and API will post your tribute to your honoree, notify them of your message, and enlist you to learn more and share about API by sending you these materials (limited quantities available; tribute message is optional):

• Donations of $25 or more receive a past issue of The Attached Family or The Journal of API and a dozen API mission brochures
• Donations of $50 or more receive two more publications, for a set of three past issues of The Attached Family or The Journal of API, and a dozen API mission brochures
• Donations of $100 or more receive the set of publications, a copy of Attached at the Heart by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker, and a dozen API mission brochures
   

API Volunteers make all the difference

Messages from the AP community in acknowledgment and appreciation for all you do for families. Like to add your appreciation? Email us.

Thank you to all the API volunteers, from 1994 to today!
 

API Reads

It's reading time again! The API Reads book for May and June will be Attached at the Heart by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker. The API Reads program is a way for you to read books that help you further your connection with your child and family. Join the discussion through GoodReads. We look forward to reading with you!
 

API Warmline

API launches the API Warmline to serve families in urgent or distressing situations when information or support is not available locally, on the API Forum, or the API website resources.

Need urgent help? Nowhere else to turn? API comes to the rescue (again)!

API urges families to first contact their local API parent group for ongoing and local support or seek support on the API Forum. When local support is not available, a message can be left at API's 800 number: 1-800-850-8320 for U.S. families, or a message sent to this email address. The call will be returned by an accredited Leader who can help. (As always, any life-threatening or medical calls should go to your emergency 911 number.)

Donations to support this program can be made on the API website or sent to API, P.O. 4615, Alpharetta, GA 30023.
 

Honors, Tributes and Memorials
 

Do you Parent Creatively?
 

Submit a blog post and/or a photograph on the theme of "Parenting Creativity: The Art of Parenting!" for a chance to be featured in our upcoming AP Month! Blog event guidelines. Photo event guidelines.
 

The Attached Family: The Attached Family APM 2012 Support Issue

The Attached Family 2012 Issue on Parenting Support is full of what every parent needs -- support. Also good reads on API Principles, breastfeeding, cosleeping, marriage, parenting alone, clean rooms, touch, babywearing, handling criticism, separation anxiety, childcare, birth, crying, Leader wisdom, and more! Read online free of charge, print at no charge, or purchase a bound print-on-demand issue -- just don't miss it!

Access your copy today with your API Membership. Members click here (use login information provided in your email notice, or visit the API Member Forum). Not a member? Join today. It's free.
 

May 2013 - API Links - Your monthly API enewsletter

We're rolling out the new, streamlined Links! Now you can find all of this month's articles on our new APedia site! This site will make it a breeze to check out the latest news API has found to help you parent successfully.

This month, we bring you news on lots of exciting topics. Click here to see the latest information on bedsharing; epidurals; calm, carried babies; breastfeeding initiatives, bullying, and MORE!
 

Browse API's Teleseminar recordings - certain to inspire you!

Attachment Parenting International knows that some families either don't live close to a support group, or are unable to attend due to busy schedules. So we want to bring parent education and support right to your living room with Ask API Live, a monthly telephone seminar (teleseminar) in which API Co-Founders Barbara Nicholson & Lysa Parker, along with author Lu Hanessian, interview members of the parent education community on a variety of topics. Check them out now and listen at your convenience.
 

You won't believe how important parent support is...

...until you read it. You can. See what parents have to say. You can be the cause of even more ripples with API.

Help us sustain this impact and create more stories by making a financial contribution to API today.