Off grid parenting

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I don't want to pull apart any families who have been in the press - mn put that to bed and rightly so.

However I'm really interesting in a discussion about it. What are the common features? What's the motivation? Any mners doing it? I want to learn, not chastise.

Why is 'on grid'? So bad?

For context I bf, delayed jabs, co slept, avoid antibiotics if I can, sling carried but I wouldn't home school.

Very curious

Well. I have parent with a disease that can now be prevented by vaccination. When he was born the vaccine was available in the West but not his country. It has blighted his whole life.
My son had multiple antibiotics in the first few days of his life. He weighed less than a kilo and was horribly premature. Without them he would have died of raging sepsis.
I breastfed both. I co-slept with one. I carried both till they got too wriggly to carry.
I would never dream of home schooling.

I consider my parenting to be fairly on the grid and mainstream.

@KoshaMangsho glad your DS made it through... premmie and sepsis... thank god for the NHS and antibiotics.would be interested to see if OP in your shoes would have agreed to them?

I think off grid either means families who take time and care to live safely and comfortably without access to things like mains water/gas/leccy. They may home school, may access some services such as NHS, but to me it's about having minimal impact on the land. Think Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales for example.

However I don't doubt that there are also some ridiculous people who claim to live off grid when actually they're holed up in the same standard housing as the rest of us, homeschooling their kids poorly and refusing to vaccinate as they give too much credence to fake news.

I'd put delaying vaccinations in the second category. HTH.

Everything else you mentioned you do is bog standard and completely mainstream.