AP = "Attachment Parenting"
I wouldn't define myself as AP at all, TBH. My philosophy is much closer to Taking Children Seriously (Karl Popper's theory of knowledge applied to family life and education). TCS is based on the idea that conflicts within the family are, at least in theory, solvable without resorting either to parental self-sacrifice or to coercing the children though the finding of common preferences = solutions to whatever the problems are which everyone genuinely prefers to their initial desires.
And IME, the bits of AP living which are to do with the parent/child relationship in the first few years (natural term breastfeeding, co-sleeping, slinging of babies, BLW, that sort of thing) tend to correlate with solutions to problems that everyone genuinely prefers.
But I'm not really invested in the "natural living" aspects which often go with AP - the organic cotton clothes and organic food and non-vaxxing or delayed vaxxing, the wooden toys (although I like a wooden toy as much as the next person) and the cloth nappies. So that's where I lose my lentil weaving credentials, Swampy lady
Similarly, TCS philosophy has all sorts of resonances with the radical unschoolers like Sandra Dodd or Joyce Fetteroll, when the children get older.
It's certainly interesting to see where AP families go to, in family dynamic, after the first 2 or 3 years - AP can turn into parental (especially maternal) self-sacrifice and there comes a point of AP burnout for some families I think. I think that as babies grow into children and toddlers, there are all sorts of challenges which arise where one has to look beyond AP for inspiration. And I see that playing out in all sorts of ways: Unconditional Parenting, or the Kabat-Zinn style Mindful Parenting or Naomi-Aldorty type stuff, or moving towards rewards and punishment, or a million other variations.
Er. Yes. That's all.