The Ideal v. The Real
I was reading over some of the articles I’ve written for this website, and I realize I failed to communicate one important point: Attachment parenting is based on an ideal, but no parent can meet this...
View ArticlePentecost: When We’re Weary and Heavy-Laden, He Will Give Us Rest
I know it’s May and our CAPC table topic is sleep, but my mind turns to the Feast of Pentecost, which the Church celebrates this year on May 27th. Pentecost commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit...
View ArticleCAPC’s Mission and 7 Building Blocks
First, apologies to subscribers for the weird transmission of 2 old posts last night! I changed a setting on our front page to allow more posts to appear and the old posts were transmitted in the...
View ArticleGUEST POST by Sheila Jenne: Parenting While You Snooze
Sheila Jenne is a young, Catholic writer and lucky mama to 2 little boys. Sheila was homeschooled and raised by an attachment mom! You can visit her on her family blog at...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Our Gradual Road to Attachment Parenting by Jana Thomas Coffman
Editor’s Note: Jana Thomas Coffman blesses us this week with her story about her long, surprising journey to attachment parenting! Jana lives near Kansas City with her husband, Chris, and their baby,...
View ArticleLosing Control
Sometimes I feel like I’m losing control. Take today, for example. In the time span of just a few hours, I heard about some less than enthusiastic support within our parish for the Theology of the...
View ArticleChanging Gears: Re-Attaching to Your Children by Anne McDonald
My three year old insists on pouring the milk himself and is ready to fight me to the death to do it. My five year old’s default mode seems to be “hit first and ask questions later.” My seven year-old...
View ArticleAt a Moment’s Notice
I have a crazy two-year-old. Henry is able to open almost anything labeled “childproof,” can climb to any height in our house, and seems to find great joy in harassing his baby sister until she...
View ArticleFinding God in Our Parenting Weakness
Today didn’t go as I had envisioned. Big brother was spending the afternoon with his teenaged pals, so I decided to do something special just for the littlies. I envisioned a wonderful trip to our...
View ArticleHanging by My Fingernails
Before I had the courage to let go of my whole way of living, two inner images rose up in my mind as symbols of my controlling behavior. When my family was still young and I had only seven children...
View ArticleWho Mothers Mommy?
Motherhood is a profound blessing and should be deep source of meaning for women, but a mom also faces sleepless nights, strained schedules, and the competing needs of her kids, her spouse, her...
View ArticleWhen Your Two-Year-Old Crawls Like a Dog Down the Communion Aisle (and Other...
Christmas Eve Mass was a disaster this year. At least it seemed that way. With my husband and two oldest children involved with the music at Mass, I was left on my own to manage a six-year-old,...
View ArticleThe Little Way of Lunches and Laundry
“The world lies to us so readily, telling us that the work of God is outside our homes. That the Lord’s work is gloriously big and newsworthy. That to find those who need us, we must look elsewhere....
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