Honey I Suckle The Kids (Ch 5 next Monday 9pm)

[hockeymum]

A programme about "attached parenting" people who breastfeed their children beyond babyhood and who carry older children about apparently.

Channel 5 next Monday at 9pm

of course not - I've swung the dgs's on my hip many a time - I'm talking about as the norm

Somebody posted a link on a thread about how the children were trained in rural India. I think it's very feasible, although, our city landscape offers few oportunities to use it freely as a potty ground without condemnation of society. I think this is one of those pieces of culture that won't travel well.

Having said that, I always find it hilarious when 1st world parents say it's highly beneficial for children to be carried on all the time BECAUSE that's what the mothers in native or latinamerican cultures do. That just happens in the poorest segment of society, mainly because these mothers are not "contracted" and maternity leave is not available to them. So... they have to carry their babies around all the time because they can not stop working without starving the family, and babies don't cry because they are used not to be fussed about while they are tightly swadled to their backs.

Well I don't use the ec'ing for potty traing but I only use the pram if I have alot of shopping, I have BF both my children in fact now I am feeding ds DD always wants some but she has hers in a cup and I carried DD until I was pregnant with DS.
In fact using a good sling (from my growing colourful collection) was actually far easier than a pushchair because DD was too young to walk everywhere and nobody would have blinked if I had her in a buggy.
I could just flip her on my back if she got tired but was not pushing around and empty buggy if she was walking so I still had both hands free.
Oh and we do co-sleep but only part time if either children want to.

Do these woman who eshew the push chair as the work of Satan also refuse to use a car???

Shopping trollies?

They should have lived with the Inca's, great civilisation that never developed the wheel!

martianbishop, probably you have just hit the nail on the head, that's why children were carried around! there was no wheel!!!

(These remind me of the 3 generation of women from my father's family, they had a special "proper" way to cut the meat that was goint to be forzen. In one of the last conversations with my grandmother, I asked about the reason of this tradition and she said: See, my mother had a tiny, non electrical fridge when I was a child... (being that the beginning of the 20th century). Now, why women kept cutting the meat the same way, even with this huge American fridges, I'll never know. I guess we can blame it all in never questioning tradition.

"This", not "these"

nice one martian

Incas, btw! I do know better