Bill and Martha Sears are currently collecting material for a book with a 
working title of "Kids Who Turned Out Right: What Their Parents Did." They've 
asked me, their long-time research assistant and editor, to collect stories 
and anecdotes  from families who practice co-sleeping, gentle discipline, 
long-term breastfeeding, minimal mother-baby separation, etc., families who, 
in general, make babies and children their number-one priority. 
    These might be stories about your own kids, or stories from your 
practice. They might be about kids who are grown-up, or nearly so,  or about 
grade-school kids or even preschoolers and toddlers. 
    Besides using anecdotal informtion, Bill is collecting research. He 
really wants to demonstrate that attachment parenting makes a difference. 
This book will be published by his regular publisher, Little Brown, with all 
their resources for promoting the book and its ideas. This is a chance to 
fight back against a mainstream culture which assumes that bottle is as good 
as breast, co-sleeping is dangerous, and babies and toddlers have to learn 
who's boss.
    Is there something wonderful about your kids or about families you've 
seen in your practice that you’d like to share with Bill and Martha and their 
readers? Write your story or anecdote just the way you’d tell it to 
supportive friends—and send it to me, Gwen Gotsch, at [log in to unmask] If 
you'd like to use actual ink on paper, my mailing address is 747 N. Humphrey, 
Oak Park, IL 60302.  Phone/fax 708-524-8795.  
    Thanks--and don’t wait too long—the manuscript is due at the publisher in 
late spring. 

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