Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Taking Care of Me by Allison Silver
May 29th, 2014
I haven't posted a blog in a few weeks because I've actually been taking some time to take care of myself. Shocker, right?! As mothers most of us put our own physical and emotional needs on the back burner in order to meet the needs of our family. This is ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: I’m sick of ……….Two! By Allison Silver
April 24th, 2014
When our daughter turned two people told me how challenging two year old's can be and welcomed me to the "terrible two's." For the past six months, I haven't seen any real difference in her overall behavior. Yes there have been some trying moments and challenging times but nothing too ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Naptime Limbo by Allison Silver
March 27th, 2014
I apologize for not posting a blog for the past few weeks but over the past several weeks we have been in a bit of a naptime limbo in our house. For the past week our two and a half year old has napped two out of seven days. On ...
Adventures In Attachment Parenting: Eating My Own Advice by Allison Silver
February 27th, 2014
Before I had our daughter I was working my way up the public school ladder, so to speak. One of my many assignments was to create and present parent education workshops to the parents of our preschool students. I presented a new workshop roughly every four to six weeks and ...
Adventures In Attachment Parenting: Chocolate For Dinner?? by Allison Silver
February 13th, 2014
I cannot deny that I do love me some chocolate and our daughter seems to have acquired that same gene! But don't most girls? Last week I was having a craving for chocolate pudding but I wanted to make something homemade that didn't have all the artificial junk in it ...
Adventures In Attachment Parenting: Nurse My Moose by Allison Silver
January 30th, 2014
I used to think it was quite strange when people nursed children past the age of one. I even remember telling people, "If they can ask for it then they are old enough to stop." And this is honestly how I felt.........before I became a mom. I had no idea ...
Adventures In Attachment Parenting: A New Year, A New Adventure by Allison Silver
January 9th, 2014
Since August I have been thinking about doing something part-time that would allow me to use my knowledge of child development. I am definitely not ready to go back to school administration or even teaching on a part-time basis. And I don't think I will be ready to do that ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Oh Christmas Tree by Allison Silver
December 26th, 2013
Christmas will have come and gone by the time many of you read this post but I felt it was definitely worth sharing as I am sure there are many of you who can relate. About a week ago we decided to go get our Christmas tree. We have had ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Home For The Holidays by Allison Silver
December 12th, 2013
For the past two weeks we were in Albuquerque visiting my family for Thanksgiving. We typically try to visit them around Christmas but this year we got such a great deal on airfare for Thanksgiving that we couldn't pass it up. However, the catch was that we had to stay ...
Adventures In Attachment Parenting: If This Is Two…..Please Send Wine! by Allison Silver
November 14th, 2013
Holy Cow this has been a rough week! And part of me feels incredibly selfish for feeling that way. At least a typhoon didn't destroy my entire community and leave me without food, shelter, and clean water! Now the people in the Philippines have every right to say they are ...
