I have a few friends who all had babies around the same time Max was born. The universe is swamped with "how to " books on parenting. We all have different ideas. And while I'll hold to the idea that parents must do what works best for their family, I'm beginning to wonder if people try too hard.

If Fuser and I had to lump ourselves into a category for parenting types we practice what Dr Sears has coined "attachment parenting." When Max was a few months old I said to Fuser one day, "If I had never read a book on parenting, I would be doing the exact same thing I'm doing now only I'd feel like it was wrong because it's not the norm for our culture, it's not what my peers (most of them) are doing, it's not what I'm used to seeing." The way we have chosen to parent, simply said, just feels natural.