Propson Palingenesis: and I'm a goddamn coward but then again so are you* →
On the bravery of children. I really love this picture of how our young ones strive, undeterred by obstacles.
On the bravery of children. I really love this picture of how our young ones strive, undeterred by obstacles.
Really interesting look at the process of “de-schooling” (when a child moves from a school setting to homeschooling or unschooling), and how the transformation period affected this whole family.
Not that you’d know about this, but African and indigenous South American women have been wearing their babies in wraps on their backs, and breastfeeding their kids through early childhood for centuries. And many modern single moms, out of necessity, have been co-sleeping with their children through late childhood years since forever.
However, when a world renowned doctor and parenting expert Dr. Sears assembles those practices along with 6 other steps for growing confident children it is called “Attachment Parenting,” making news and going viral. It also gets a coveted TIME magazine cover.
"So much good information here. So many linked resources. I can’t even pick out what I like the best. Please read and absorb it all. Thank you.
It’s important to me she recognize I am an individual outside of being a mother. …
I don’t want her to hear these stories and know me as an individual only in the past tense–what I used to do or who I used to be.Beyond a stay-at-home mom, who am I now?
I am not being oppressed by my parenting style. Thanks for your concern but you are missing a key piece of the story. You see; I am not solely responsible for building and maintaining my child’s sense of attachment.
Exactly. Attachment parenting wasn’t meant to exist in a vacuum of one isolated mother and her children. It’s a natural child-raising culture, but it reflects the millennia of how parents raised their children only if the village is intact. On the one hand, having been plenty isolated myself, I totally sympathize with parents who find AP hard due to lack of support. On the other hand, refusing to acknowledge the role that other trusted caregivers have in AP (particularly partners, who I think get the shortest shrift in these conversations) just reinforces those silly modern stereotypes that parenting is meant to be done alone.
Ah, I love e.e. cummings. What a beautiful birthday tribute, and poetry break.
you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever’s living will yourself become.
Well, seeing as it’s officially Sunday, I’ve run out of time to read and comment on the rest of the articles discussing the TIME article in my Reader. Herewith I will simply paste them all and leave you to it, if you want to delve further:
If I’ve missed any others, leave your links in the comments!
Heartwarming story of giving a child the connection she needed through a difficult surgery and recovery. Another case study to show that breastfeeding past infancy is normal and beneficial.
