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Welcome Joy! Ironically I was thinking about you and this the other day and wondering what your postgraduate work would be.
And, I hear both of you. I do - honestly and truly - value the role of a very involved parent with the children, however, it is very hard for me to do that without a break for some other type of work.
For me at least, I like doing both - I love part-time work.
Oh, Joy, I was also thinking about you last night in the middle of the night when the baby was not wanting to sleep and I was occupying my mind. I was thinking about - somewhat seriously - applying for a grant to study differences in attachment in children raised with the primary tenets of attachment parenting and children raised in "mainstream" families.
So, I'm going to run with this and just babble more: I was thinking about a longitudinal study where I would look at not just the immediate attachment style, but the manner it develops over the years. Of course, being a clinical psychologist, I would also want to look at how that ties with the development or prevention of psychological disorders.
But, I was thinking 1000 newborns - 1/2 from families committed to attachment parenting and 1/2 from non-abusive (i.e., healthy) families that do not practice AP. Interview parent, observe child, and observe parent-child interaction every year. Then build a large database which could be used to look at a TON of different information.
Okay, I need to shut my mind off.
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