Alternative Parenting

[SausageSmuggler]

Hi,
Not looking to start a bun fight over the topic but can anyone help point me in the right direction? I've mentioned on some of my previous posts that i'm at uni - i'm in my 3rd year studying Early Years (just giving some context so you know i'm not a troll). For one of my assignments i'm researching alternative parenting types - so far i've found quite a bit on attachment parenting and gender-neutral parenting. I want to also talk about tiger mums and alternative parenting styles in general but i'm struggling to find sources for them. Does anyone know of any good websites that might have something?
Apologies, I know this is kind of off topic.
Thanks

You can read that god awful book about Tiger mothers, there's a fair amount of research (including an article in the times and many on feminist forums) on gender nuetral parenting......for everything else there's Google.

Thanks Posie, have a feeling that book would give me rage but should probably use it as an argument 'for' it. Have Googled myself into a minor state of insanity and am really having trouble hence appealing for the knowledge of MN.

Have you read Unconditional Parenting yet?

Any books by Stephen Biddulph should be on your reading list, especially - Raising Boys. Have you looked at Unconditional Parenting? Alfie Kohn. You might want to read the magazine Green Parent - full of alternative parenting articles, on line too. Junior magazine also has some interesting parenting articles. www.enjoyparenting.com/dailygroove have a look at this chap for his take on parenting. Hope that gives you some directions! Happy reading !

Ah thats fantastic, i'll check them out. Thank you ladies!

This is a friend's website - lots of info which she's written just from her heart but this is the links page which is extremely interesting and informative :)

Continuum Concept is a must-read, too. It's not too long.

Prehaps you need to get out and meet some alternative parents rather than playing on mumsnet and pretending its research.

Maybe you could go along to a La Leche meeting and actually meet breastfeeding toddlers. Or maybe you could contact a home educating group.
Or prehaps go to a Suzuki meet if you want to meet the pushy tiger mothers.

There is nothing like seeing alternative parenting in the flesh.

The Dr. Sears website has quite a lot of stuff on common sense 'attachment parenting', and I think there are links to academic and peer-reviewed journals on there too, so that would probably help you more than unsupported websites.

YY definitely to go and actually speak to people. You will find that the way a book is written and the way people interpret them are very different.

I'm doing a cultural studies module ATM and one of the big things which is pushed is that the best way to understand a group of people's actions, reasoning and motivations is to ask them, spend time with them, do a bit of ethnography if you can. If you can't, interviews, focus groups, observations are all good to add context to your book based research.

RIE and awar parenting migh be worth looking into.

Sorry (iPad, grrr) - aware parenting.