E135 – We have a wonderful conversation with Jamie Grumet, known for her controversial breastfeeding cover on TIME magazine, now at its 10-year anniversary. With a background in anthropology & theology, she is the author of Modern Attachment Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Raising a Secure Child, its introduction by Dr. Sears & foreword by Alanis Morissette. Jamie shares her insights on parenting using these methods while educating us about other cultures, adoption, breastfeeding & children self-weaning at older ages. We find out what she went through going viral in such a contentious way at a young age, and discuss the psychology of what this represents; mothers judging mothers, puritanical ideals & sexual repression. Does she regret the photo session? And we talk about what we can do to educate future generations. Our own adult attachment styles are analyzed too (secure, anxious, avoidant, etc), as we wonder how we were raised. Spoiler alert: we know a lot about each others’ childhoods. Our parents were best friends in high school, so Jamie is like our honorary little sister! We hope you enjoy this interesting discussion & support Jamie’s wonderfully inclusive & accepting book, currently sold on Amazon!

• Find Jamie Grumet at https://www.instagram.com/jgrumet


• Support Jamie’s book on Amazon Modern Attachment Parenting


• TIME cover May 12, 2012 Are You Mom Enough?

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►Outline

00:00 – Introductions

03:00 – TIME magazine

05:30 – Attachment parenting (AP), Dr. Sears, attachment styles

10:45 – Forming healthy attachments

12:30 – How we were raised, co-sleeping, night doulas

19:10 – Primates, infant mortality

21:30 – Partners, monogamy

23:45 – Unable to breastfeed?

29:20 – Backlash, judgement

31:00 – Controversy, WHO, AAP recommendations

34:05 – Self-weaning, long-term psychology

36:00 – Bonding, breastfeeding, adoption

43:45 – Haters and Religion

47:30 – We’re modern, evolved; parenting give & take

50:50 – (Dream Dinners Ad)

52:30 – Sleep training, cry it out, discipline

1:01:35 – Regret TIME cover?

1:07:00 – Our parents, attachment styles

1:13:40 – Predatory marketing of formula & water

1:17:35 – Rape culture, sexual repression, hypersexuality

1:24:50 – Conclusion

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