Welcome!

If you are interested in attachment parenting and live in Southeast Texas (Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange area), this group is for you!

Attachment Parenting International (API) Support Group of Southeast Texas is a peer-led parent support group that offers monthly meetings featuring discussions on common attachment parenting issues. Our meetings are on the first Thursday of each month. Meeting location and times varies. Contact Jeannette for more information.

Our mission is to educate and support all parents in raising secure, joyful, and empathic children in order to strengthen families and create a more compassionate world.

Why Attachment Parenting?
The way we raise our children affects their future, the future of those who will interact with them, and the way they will choose to raise their own children. The essence of Attachment Parenting is about forming and nurturing strong connections between parents and their children. It challenges us as parents to treat our children with kindness, respect and dignity, and to model, in our interactions with them, the way we’d like them to interact with others.

When we strengthen families, we nurture and fulfill our children’s needs for trust, respect, empathy, and affection, which will ultimately provide a lifelong foundation for healthy, enduring relationships. Raising empathic, emotionally balanced children is a gift to the world that has the capacity to change our society for generations to come.

API has identified the conditions found to be vital to the optimal development of children. These are at the core of API’s educational mission and are encompassed in API’s Eight Principles of Attachment Parenting:
1. Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
2. Feed with Love and Respect
3. Respond with Sensitivity
4. Use Nurturing Touch
5. Engage in Nighttime Parenting
6. Provide Consistent, Loving Care
7. Practice Positive Discipline
8. Strive for Balance in Personal and Family Life