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Help Sustain API's Mission Today
Please Respond with Your Support to API's 2011 Annual Appeal

Continuing API's work and mission is vital to the well being of our world's children and their parents. Please donate to API today and help support an organization working every day to shift societies away from misguiding and hurtful parenting information toward parenting with secure and healthy attachment in mind. Read API's Accomplishments and Plans and its 2011/2012 Annual Appeal to you and help us create a more compassionate world.

API Live Teleseminar with Fred Donaldson

API Live audio recording of Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First available now, and at special price!

Featuring international play expert Fred Donaldson

  • How can "play" solve discipline problems?
  • Eliminate power struggles?
  • Restore our relationships with our kids to peace and ease?

Don't miss this interview with a rare and wise man who knows how power of play can heal us all.

Purchase the downloadable audio recording of the teleseminar here: Playing for Keeps

TheAttachedFamily.com is API's free online magazine of all the great articles that just cannot fit into the quarterly print magazine. If you enjoy these articles, you'll love the print magazine -- now available on recycled cover and interior gloss paper or electronically. Join API today to not miss an issue and support a great cause at the same time.

Simon Says: Check out AP Month October 1-31!

AP Month is over, but play goes on! Our theme this year "Families at Play: Nurturing Parent-Child Relationships through Play" has tuned us in all month to the ways we can keep our parent-child relationships healthy, fresh and fun! Check out all the great photos that came in and the blog posts about play. The teleseminar on play can soon be purchased on MP3 and you can always check out everything AP Month at AP Month Central. A special thank you goes out to our AP Month partners and sponsors and to everyone who participated in another special event. ...and we'll be jolly friends, for ever more more more!

 

API Links - Affirming AP News, and Holiday Memories

The December 2011 API Links links you to news on babies sleeping with butcher knives (a controversial co-sleeping campaign), baby's and mother's hormonal ties, babies before birth, parent stress, family health and economics, the "empathy gene," new API Leaders, and other news developments, videos, and posts.

API Response to the Milwaukee Anti-bedsharing Campaign

Our hearts are broken at the loss of precious lives in Wisconsin. API is moved by and shares this passion to definitively halt similar ongoing sleep-related tragedies. We also agree and support information that would discourage bedsharing for those who are not healthy/safe candidates. Still, to say that no parent should ever have the baby in bed...

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.

Why Support Attachment Parenting International?


Your donations help us to reach millions of families through web and support groups. With your help, we can continue supporting families like yours with information and programs. Please make your gift today.

Honors, Tributes and Memorials

API Live! - If Play's Our Natural Way, What Gets in the Way?

Exploring our Parental Fear of Play and How to Restore and Cultivate Wellbeing, Reconnection, and Playfulness in Ourselves for Healthy Relationship, featuring Lu Hanessian -- this API Live! teleseminar is now available for purchase.

 
NEWS & EVENTS

News

1/14/12 - API Links online now!

11/19/11 - API Response to Milwaukee Anti-bedsharing Campaign

11/4/11 - Remembering Minda Lazarov (1955-2011)

Events

1/23/12 - API Live! with Fred Donaldson

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Attached at the Heart

ForeWord Book Review

"The book is written for well-educated readers and professionals. It should be required reading for daycare owners, social workers, and members of the judicial system. A simplified version would be worthwhile for parents who could benefit from the tips and message without the academic documentation. The book's advice is empowering and, if followed, could lead to a better world."

Read the entire review (PDF) or buy the book today!

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