{"id":2709,"date":"2014-10-17T20:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2014-10-17T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:43:53","slug":"then-and-now-parenting-philosophies-over-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now: Parenting Philosophies Over 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN &#8211; While the times have changed tremendously for families in Texas and across the country over the past two decades, most of the main philosophies of parenting really have not. So says Janet Jendron, board president of Attachment Parenting International, a group celebrating its 20th anniversary. She says today\u2019s parents have to deal with children growing up with new technology, social media and the like, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s changed is not the basic parenting. Attachment parenting is natural parenting,\u201d says Jendron. \u201cIt\u2019s what people have the instincts to do, and that\u2019s what\u2019s kept the human race going all these years. It\u2019s being close, feeding on demand and all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attachment Parenting International was founded in 1994, with a goal of promoting practices that create strong and healthy emotional bonds between parents and children. October is Attachment Parenting Month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2710\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2710\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2710\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gr-42064-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"October is Attachment Parenting Month, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of Attachment Parenting International. Photo: vladbusuioc\/Flickr.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gr-42064-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gr-42064-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gr-42064-1-1-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gr-42064-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">October is Attachment Parenting Month, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of Attachment Parenting International. Photo: vladbusuioc\/Flickr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the past 20 years, there\u2019s been a great deal of research into parenting, on everything from the benefits of breastfeeding to the use of corporal punishment, which Jendron notes has garnered much recent attention with the happenings in the National Football League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s most interesting that that\u2019s coming out now on such a big scale, because Attachment Parenting all along said, \u2018These decisions you make in a family make a difference in society, in violence in society,\u2019\u201d Jendron says. \u201cAnd the way a child is parented is the way he\u2019s going to instinctively, or she, raise his or her own children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another growing challenge in raising children, says Jendron, is how parents are becoming overwhelmed with opinions and products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents now have in front of their eyes, Facebook, on TV, it\u2019s all of these things that they think they need to have to raise a child. And really, actually, very few of those things are absolutely necessary,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stress on new parents to have the right product, do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN &#8211; While the times have changed tremendously for families in Texas and across the country over the past two decades, most of the main philosophies of parenting really have not. So says Janet Jendron, board president of Attachment Parenting International, a group celebrating its 20th anniversary. 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