Did you check out the new cover of this week’s TIME Magazine? The cover story takes an in-depth look at attachment parenting and the controversy surrounding it. The personal history and legacy of Dr. William Sears, the father of attachment parenting and writer of well-known parenting guide, The Baby Book, is documented and explored. Attachment parenting, according to Dr. Sears, involves 7 “tools:” birth bonding (close attachment with your baby after birth), breastfeeding, babywearing (carrying your baby in a sling or baby carrier), sleeping close to baby (co-sleeping), belief in the language value of your baby’s cry (responding to baby’s crying signals), beware of baby trainers (be discerning of parenting advice) and balance (keeping a balance in parenting and your relationship with your partner.)

As for the cover itself, 26-year-old mother of two, Jamie Lynne Grumet from Los Angeles is pictured breastfeeding her almost four-year-old son. Grumet is a big proponent of attachment parenting and has two children (an adopted son and a biological son). She told TIME that she understands the critics who question extended breastfeeding and attachment parenting, but believes it’s a normal parenting style: “They are people who tell me they’re going to call social services on me or that it’s child molestation. I really don’t think I can reason with those people. But as far as someone who says they’re uncomfortable with this, I don’t think it’s wrong to admit this. But people have to realize this is biologically normal. It’s not socially normal.The more people see it, the more it’ll become normal in our culture. That’s what I’m hoping. I want people to see it.”

What do you think of TIME‘s cover? Are you interested in reading about attachment parenting? Do you practice it or know anyone who does?

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Former Blossom star, Mayim Bialik, advocates attachment parenting in her new book, Beyond the Sling. Mayim, who has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA says that the method of parenting is science-based. According to Dr. Sears, attachment parenting has 7 “tools:” birth bonding (close attachment with your baby after birth), breastfeeding, babywearing (carrying your baby in a sling or baby carrier), sleeping close to baby (co-sleeping), belief in the language value of your baby’s cry (responding to baby’s crying signals), beware of baby trainers (be discerning of parenting advice) and balance (keeping a balance in parenting and your relationship with your partner.)

According to Fox News, Mayim says she, her husband and her two sons all sleep in one room with two beds that are low to the ground. She sleeps with one of their sons and her husband sleeps with the other — and they don’t have sex in either beds. Mayim also uses the elimination technique, which is where you bring even young babies to the toilet instead of using diapers. The actress also says she doesn’t force her kids to share or say “please” and “thank you,” saying that it’s “about teaching a relationship — it’s not teaching obedience.”

Many critics of attachment parenting say that it doesn’t give parents their own space from their children and vice versa — and the American Academy of Pediatrics doesn’t recommend letting babies sleep in your bed for safety reasons — but advocates of attachment parenting believe it allows parents to connect with their children and provide a nurturing environment.

What do you think of attachment parenting? Would you try it?