Trending News|June 26, 2013 11:55 EDT
Mayim Bialik ("Big Bang Theory") Controversial Views on Attachment Parenting, "People Want To Fight With Me"
Actress Mayim Bialik has made a re-emergence in the limelight with her role on the hit TV show the "Big Bang Theory".
Bialik, 37, is best known for her starring role in the hit 1990s show "Blossom" but is back in the headlines for news other than her acting.
She believes in attachment parenting and has been sharing her views on it, but not without receiving a heavy amount a lot of criticism for it.
Attachment parenting has a goal of increasing the child's secure attachment while decrease the insecure attachment.
Ways this is can be achieved are through breastfeeding (at older child ages), sleeping together, having a parent carry their child in a sling among other things.
The Jewish parenting website Kveller gave Bialik a chance to share her choice to participate in attachment parenting and has shared that the feedback from her sharing has not gone over well with a lot of people.
"If I'm talking to girlfriends, if I'm talking to random people, and we're talking about parenting, I tell them what works for me and why," Bialik said, referring to how she breastfed her son Fred until he was 4. "But a lot of people want to ask me things so that they can fight with me."
"And just because I'm a public person, who happened to have breastfed and slept with her kids, that doesn't mean that I want to fight with you on the street or in the supermarket," she continued. "So, I think you have to be really careful to understand why people want to know what they want to know."
Bialik and Michael Stone were married for nine years together but have just finalized their divorce. They have two sons together, Miles, 7, and Fred, 4.
"Obviously the notion of an older child nursing is very strange to some people," she said. "In certain cultures it's not. And I was very careful about when and how I chose to breastfeed my older child. ... I think the notion of breastfeeding at all is still very controversial in some circles."
What are your feelings on attachment parenting? Can it be healthy or no?