Is attachment parenting too close for comfort?

Tamara Ecclestone believes attachment parenting is the best way to raise her young daughter. But the approach does not work for every parent or baby, writes Helen O’Callaghan

DURING the first three years of her daughter Sophia’s life, Tamara Ecclestone spent only six-and-a-half minutes apart from the child.

The recent media revelation by the model and TV personality probably seemed bizarre to most parents. Six-and-a-half minutes! In three years! Did Ecclestone — heiress daughter of former Formula 1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone — never in all that time yearn for some ‘me’ time, some solo time sans baby? A long luxurious hot shower, a 20-minute jog in the park, a meet-up for coffee with her girlfriends?