API (Attachment Parenting International) 15 Year Celebration!

I just got back from Nashville Tennesse not 10 minutes ago. What a wonderful weekend! Attachment Parenting International started 15 years ago, with two moms who met at a La Leche League meeting in Nashville Tennessee. What is API?

API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents. For life. So they can take those bonds with them into their adult lives and share them with their children. And their children can do the same. A life cycle of compassion and connection.

Through education, support, advocacy and research, our principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.

The celebration consisted of a silent auction and a concert staring Vince Gill and Grammy Award winning artist Gary Nicholson and their children! There was a panel of speakers that was awesome! The panel included Ina May Gaskin, Barbara Nicholson, Mary Ann Cahill, James J. Mckenna, PhD, Dr.  William Sears, Isabelle Fox, PhD, Martha sears RN and Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE.

I had an amazing time there and will post more about the event and Attachment Parenting in the future.