It's been about a month now that I've been, as part of my job, imparting to others a programmatic set of principles based primarily in Attachment Theory. In other words, I've spent a month talking about attachment: ....attachment styles, secure attachment, insecure attachment, organized attachment, disorganized attachment, my attachment, your attachment, avoidant attachment, ambivalet attachment, dismissive attachment, entangled attachment, unresolved attachment... You get the picture...I've been surrounded by attachment, whose dissection is not the purpose of this post (thankfully). I believe the greatest byproduct of all my exhortation on the topic is the personal challenge I have found within it all. I am so thankful I am not in a position that requires me to ask of anyone (whether child or a staff member) something I am not willing or able to do myself. And we've been taking a good, hard, long look at ourselves and our lives and our attachments an...