attachment parenting
Noun
Meaning
attachment parenting (uncountable)
A parenting philosophy that aims to promote the attachment of parent and infant through parental empathy, responsiveness, and bodily closeness.
Synonym: (initialism) AP
Examples
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Attachment parenting is hard, but it shouldn’t be unrealistically demanding or unhealthy for the baby’s caretakers.
Attachment parenting is viewed as a return to a natural way of parenting, and this is attractive to many millennial moms.