To wonder if this is what people mean by gentle parenting

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Not sure why a one year old wouldn't have a nappy on as she clearly is not Notts trained at that age my one year old would be become destressed to be constantly wet

And what's the no medication about surely social service would become involved if they got very ill and parents did noting

Very odd

adult I don't see how she is BF-shaming? She is practicing extended bf, and normalising it by talking about it publicly. Why is it only ok to do in the privacy of your home? And why on earth do their choices bother you so much? So many angry people on mn tonight.

She's not normalising it at all, she's not going "hey, this is actually pretty normal" - she's trying to make it sound like they're doing something way out there because she's trying to make money off her book which she hasn't even written yet…

There's BFing outside the home.. and then there's dressing it up as something really radical and trying to literally sell it!

If she fed him at our local library I honestly wouldn't give it much though.

Is it lame that I'm tempted to note in my diary the date when their funding page expires? I kind of want to know if anyone will actually donate anything... apart from Adele herself I mean :o

Comment on the funding page: I genuinely strongly suspect you'd be more successful if you'd simply asked for donations so you could simply sod right off.

:o :o

Didn't rtft thread but no, it's not. Gentle parenting actually entails quite firm, consistent boundaries. Maybe do your research before you mock?

The fuck is a "crunchy" parent?

I thought it was a joke but apparently not

www.littlecrunchy.com/2012/08/what-is-crunchy-parenting.html

2dogs I find you calling extended bf incest offensive tbh.

Apart from BFing, I don't think I'm terribly 'crunchy'.

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A least she has a fiver in hers the husbands has nothing!

I wonder if they've even been to Costa Rica...

I don't understand this modern obsession with labelling absolutely everything to do with parenting.

"Baby wearing" it's using a sling ffs.

I've been googling where the various timings come from and apparently infant potty training was the norm until psychologists and pediatricians in the US encouraged a more 'child-centred' approach and said it should be delayed until the toddler days as that is more in line with the child's own timetable. If this approach was only now being established, it sounds like it might have been called 'baby-led potty training'. I wonder if this would have an effect on who would choose that approach.

Co-sleeping - fine
Breastfeeding a 5 year old - fine
5 year old can't read or write - fine (my 5 year old can't either, except for her name)
But no vaccinations, no doctors, no medicine... not fine! Those poor kids.

Maybe, I completely agree. Babies are not accessories - you cannot wear them.

Someone handed me a flyer for a meetup with 'other members of the Babywearing community' the other day.

Robot a member of a fb group I'm a member of posted lamenting she couldn't find other "babywearers" to be friends with.

*I don't understand this modern obsession with labelling absolutely everything to do with parenting.

"Baby wearing" it's using a sling ffs.*

Cloth-bumming is another one. Why anyone would need to describe themselves as this is beyond me. Your baby wears washable nappies, so you are now a cloth bummer?

dolka is that really a thing?!?!

I actually do a lot of things that "attachment parents" do, but it's just what I do, not a specific parenting style I follow.

I mean what if you decide you're an "attachment" parent and then your baby hates, for instance, being "worn" and co sleeping? My DS hates both these things!

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It just gets better and better...

Then you get kicked out of the crunchy club Maybe

Well then attachment parenting would mean listening to your child Maybe.

Can anyone post the link to her?

Well, I don't agree with antivax and no medical intervention. And I did snigger a bit that she avoided hospital birth because of 'the observer effect', when she seems quite keen to be observed right now, BUT.... But...
I can't help feeling like those kids are having a pretty amazing childhood. My kids do have too many toys, and too many rules, and our lives run to a ridiculously tight schedule. I run myself ragged trying to do everything 'right', when all kids really want is love, and freedom, and fun.
And for all the comments about them growing up to be delinquents, weeeelllll... I bet they don't - they will most likely turn out to be chilled, gentle, slightly alternative adults. But I don't see them smashing windows and robbing banks as some pp have suggested!

Zedwoman- someone has accused her of removing the crowd funder links from their fb page......i wonder why she would do that?
I think there is at least one mumnetyer commenting as well lol

MN is such an odd place, so many judgey comments when usually if you pass comment on anyone's life you get torn down for being judgey. I couldn't care less about this couple, they are free to live how they see fit, I don't blame them from shying away from pharma for minor health complaints, a five year old unable to read is no big deal and extended BF- who cares, the lotus birth is interesting but the little research I've done seems to expose it as being a bit airy fairy and possibly dangerous. Obviously the self promotion is to raise awareness for their crowd funding, no less worthy than a lot of the crap people crowd fund for. Mosquito coast anyone?