Part of the AP practice is becoming an authoritative parent. This means that you are not too permissive (spoiling your child) and not too strict (bossing your child around). Some people I know hear attachment parenting and take it to the extreme and think that it means they can never say no to their child.
I believe in creating a "yes" environment for my son, which means there aren't a lot of places in the house where I would have to say NO all the time. But, I still do say NO, and sometimes rather forecefully. But am I being a bad parent? I don't think so. Touching a cord is a big NO, and so is hanging on the oven handle.
We are doing our children a disservice if we are too permissive and too restrictive. It's hard sometimes to be in the middle ground, but with support we can do it (off days aside, since we all have one of those!)  | 
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