Today's term: attachment parenting
at-tach-ment par-ent-ing n: an extremely child-centered style of infant rearing promoted by Dr. William Sears that entails around-the-clock physical closeness, including breastfeeeding, bedsharing, and "babywearing" for the first nine months - see also: sling babies, co-sleeping, natural family living (NFL), cry it out, self-sacrifice
Used in a sentence: If my mother had practiced attachment parenting, I'd be married by now.
Yikes, sounds a little crazy!