Mayim Bialik revealed that she isn't interested in arguing with people about her attachment parenting style.

Bialik has been open about "baby-wearing", which involves the parent carrying them, putting them in a sling across the parent's body and "co-sleeping". The Big Bang Theory actress told Yahoo! Friday that she's tired of defending the practice.

"If I'm talking to girlfriends, if I'm talking to random people, and we're talking about parenting, I tell them what works for me and why," Bialik explained. "But a lot of people want to ask me things so that they can fight with me."

She said that just because she's a public person, "it doesn't mean that I want to fight with you on the street or in the supermarket."

"I think you have to be really careful to understand why people want to know what they want to know," she said.

The 37-year-old actress also has a PhD in neuroscience and taught high school science. She taught classes with her son Miles "strapped to her chest," saying that many of the kids she taught were used to seeing moms doing various activities with their babies attached to them.

Bialik said that she likes to indicate her support to mothers that breastfeed in public. "I make sure to give them a friendly smile or a nod because it's nice to have support like that because I remember getting lots of kind of nasty looks."

Bialik wrote a blog post in February about weaning her 4-year-old son Fred off of breastfeeding. "I was very careful about when and how I chose to breastfeed my older child," she revealed. "I put a lot of boundaries and limits around it and again took the guidance of women who had sort of walked this path before me. I think the notion of breastfeeding at all is still very controversial in some circles."

The post made headlines and was met with a variety of responses, both supportive and critical.

Watch Bialik explain attachment parenting on an episode of Anderson Cooper's talk show last year:

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