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EXCLUSIVE: Kourtney Kardashian’s ’attachment model’ of parenting can put kids susceptible to melancholy and nervousness in later life, warn specialists


Kourtney Kardashian’s ’attachment model’ of parenting can go away kids with emotional issues for all times, specialists have advised DailyMail.com.

The Preserving Up With The Kardashians star just lately gave start to child quantity 4, her first youngster with husband Travis Barker, which the couple have reportedly named Rocky.

Earlier in her being pregnant, the 44 year-old advised Vogue that she deliberate to observe attachment model parenting together with her new child.

This method goals to safe an exceptionally shut bond between mom and youngster, through dedicating as a lot time as potential to the infant, in addition to practices like co-sleeping, joint bathing, and drug-free labor.

Final 12 months, Kourtney admitted she nonetheless co-slept together with her 10-year-old daughter Penelope ’just about each evening.’ The mom of-four has additionally spoken of co-sleeping together with her first born, Mason, now 12, up till he turned seven. 

However specialists have warned different new mother and father to not comply with in her footsteps.

Kourtney Kardashian will adopt an attachment parenting style with her new baby - which includes co-sleeping, joint baths and responding to the child's every need immediately

Kourtney Kardashian will undertake an attachment parenting model together with her new child – which incorporates co-sleeping, joint baths and responding to the kid’s each want instantly

The reality star says she slept in the same bed as her first born son Mason, now 12, until he was seven years-old. Her daughter Penelope, now 10, still shares her bed 'pretty much every night'

The truth star says she slept in the identical mattress as her first born son Mason, now 12, till he was seven years-old. Her daughter Penelope, now 10, nonetheless shares her mattress ’just about each evening’

Dr Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychologist from Beverly Hills, California, stated ’smothering’ mother and father are linked to a higher threat of the kid growing melancholy and nervousness in later life. 

’Relying on the psychological make-up of every youngster, [attachment parenting] will both make them wish to proceed to cling for extra years than is absolutely applicable, or it’ll make them flee to get away from her quicker, as a result of [a parent] has been overbearing.’

Each these issues are related to emotional troubles in maturity, she says. 

Different specialists have warned that attachment parenting units up unrealistic expectations for fogeys, and leaves kids ill-equipped to observe independence.

Kourtney Kardashian married Blink 182 star Travis Barker in 2022, and the pair have recently celebrated the birth of their first child together

Kourtney Kardashian married Blink 182 star Travis Barker in 2022, and the pair have just lately celebrated the start of their first youngster collectively

 ’From a sensible standpoint, continuous presence of fogeys is not possible: no father or mother may be completely conscious of their youngster on a regular basis,’ says Dr Jephtha Tausig, a scientific psychologist working in New York Metropolis.

 ’There are occasions when mother and father want to concentrate to different issues, and it may be useful, notably as they become older, for kids to grow to be extra snug with delaying their gratification.’

Not with the ability to delay gratification can cease kids growing a wholesome quantity of endurance, in line with Dr Tausig.

One other main concern for specialists are the identified dangers of co-sleeping, which is strongly discouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Little one well being specialists have lengthy warned that bed-sharing with a child can improve the chance of sudden toddler dying syndrome (SIDS).

Celebrities that help ’attachment parenting’

  • Angelina Jolie
  • Kourtney Kardashian
  • Heidi Klum
  • Kristen Bell 
  • Alanis Morissette
  • Pamela Anderson 
  • Tori Spelling
  • Kristin Cavallari 
  • Milla Jovovich 
  • Gwen Stefani
  • Mayim Bailik
  • Salma Hayek 
  • Leah Remini 
  • Pink
  • Alysssa Milano 
  • January Jones 

It is because an grownup mattress has many security dangers, corresponding to the dearth of boundaries to cease them falling out. Co-sleeping additionally will increase the possibility of suffocation and strangulation because of the smooth mattress and free or smooth bedding like pillows, blankets and quilts.

Dr Lieberman provides: ’It additionally units up an unrealistic expectation for a mom to proceed to permit kids to sleep together with her till they’re 10. 

’And when the mom needs to sleep with a accomplice, she shoos them out of the mattress, which makes kids really feel deserted and fewer vital.’ 

Many alternative parenting attachment types have been coined by psychologists over time – together with authoritative, permissive and safe.  

The observe of attachment parenting was first popularized by American pediatrician Dr William Sears, who wrote the vastly fashionable e-book ’The Child E book.’  

He says attachment parenting revolves round seven key rules, which start to be practiced whereas a lady continues to be pregnant.

They embody start bonding, breastfeeding, child sporting, bed-sharing, perception in your child’s cries, watch out for child trainers and stability.

Whereas some insist that the approach nurtures a more healthy, happier relationship between father or mother and youngster, critics have warned that attachment parenting could cause kids to be overdependent whereas growing the stress positioned on their mother and father.

Dr Diana Divecha, a developmental psychologist from Berkeley, California, wrote in a weblog publish on her web site that the standard of interactions between mother and father and youngsters are sometimes extra vital than the quantitiy.

What issues, she says, is ’the caregiver’s orientation and attunement: Is the caregiver careworn or calm, checked out or engaged, and are they studying a child’s alerts?’

Dr Lieberman says it is very important observe that an excessive amount of involvement from a father or mother is all the time higher than too little.

Developmental psychologists have beforehand warned towards different, extra fashionable types of parenting – corresponding to Helicopter mother and father, who could also be over-involved and too protecting, and Elephant mother and father, who’re unrealistically formidable a few kid’s skills. 

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