„Attachment Parenting” According to William and Martha Sears – the Attempt of Pedagogical Model Evaluation

Abstract

In this article, I am trying to answer the question: is Attachment Parenting an optimal parenting model for child's psychosocial development? I am posing a hypothesis: Attachment Parenting is a parenting model that will assure child's proper psychosocial development providing its parents head for child’s weal in the first instance, they evaluate child’s abilities and needs and customize the Attachment Parenting’s methods to these needs, not the reverse. The aim of this article is to present Attachment Parenting, that was devised by William and Martha Sears. I took presenting the general postulates of attachment theory, which claims that parent-child relation creates a child's psychosocial development, as a starting point. Moreover, I discuss `Attachment Parenting' with its seven ideals as a practical response to an appeal for engaging in care and upbringing of children based on the strong and permanent bond between a parent and a child. Subsequently, I am trying to submit the Attachment Parenting model to pedagogical estimation, discussing its positives and negatives.