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[moominmolly]

Parenting link of the day, mostly for my own reference: Ignore your child, but do it lovinglyIt has come to my attention that I mostly only talk about the good stuff. I admit it is a bit of a habit; I find fun more interesting to share than pain. But I don't mean to give an inaccurate picture of what all of this is like. For all that N is cute and

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[starphire]

About 2. Looking back, we had actually had different interpretations of what Jean Liedloff had said in her book from the beginning, but we each felt our own approach was working OK for us. I took what opportunities I could to go and do stuff, visit friends, etc. with a baby hanging off of me most of the time, basically going about my own life but prepared for frequent unplanned interruptions. And beginning sometime after age 1, I had begun to set some boundaries, when I felt K was testing me in a way that just didn't feel right.

Around age 2 was the point where it was becoming obvious (and a source of household stress) that B and K were not getting along so well anymore, and B felt K wasn't ALLOWING her the freedom to do what she wanted, but rather testing her constantly.

I thought I remembered the author actually saying she'd gotten a lot of calls & letters from parents who'd read her book, and had been trying to practice continuum parenting, but in a child-centric way, and were having trouble & getting desperate to know what they were doing wrong. But rereading it, I guess it was not necessarily that - more like random parents who were simply having behavioral problems with their kids.