tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049827109069865472.post1109345161892159396..comments2009-03-04T13:54:33.387-08:00Judy Pettersenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15711438943804819570judy@babytrekker.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049827109069865472.post-73678288614688609472009-03-04T13:54:00.000-08:002009-03-04T13:54:00.000-08:00me want a baby trekker for our trip overseas in may!<BR/>would be so cool for our one year old!!!<BR/>sealazim@gmail.comgfdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09571838092342804053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049827109069865472.post-81421058654619748912008-12-11T19:30:00.000-08:002008-12-11T19:30:00.000-08:00Judy, thanks for this excellent article. <BR/> Our neglect of children in order to enable us to keep moving on the soul sucking treadmills which are the backbone of this unsustainable economy, is costing us big time when you read the headlines. Sadly these are not the conditions required for healthy, happy and productive children. As you have said Judy, 'arms length' care is what we have chosen- but not what our babies would ever choose. We would not have chosen our parenting style either, if we only listened better and trusted in our our own innate survival handbook buried in the amber of our mind. We become too busy to listen to anything other than our marketing doctors of spin. We must give in to the part of the mind that wants to cuddle and coo to our little ones in their primal year. There is good reason that we want to. It is the best route to survival. The route we are pushed down is the pathway to the pharmacy and 'preemptive oil strikes'.<BR/> Children who are carried have the stimulus of all their evolutionary needs met: touch, taste, smell, oral and aural needs met along with the vital motion. Which fosters a larger brain mass and IQ. They are healthier, 'in touch' with their parents and eclipse all North American norms of development. 'Dumbing down' is no long just a joke. We have so much to learn from the so called less progressive and developed countries who live in harmony not hegemony. Less 'sophisticated' cultures give in to every whim of a baby to enhance their survival. We call that 'spoiling'. Well we don't actually...but learn it early from some twisted guru who says "let them cry it out'"..."its good for their lungs"...ideas promoted by conscienceless corporations. When in fact you can not spoil a baby. But surely children. Many have stopped raising their children; who now raze the planet. These cultures may 'spoil' their babies but not their children. They are more independent, loving, productive and contributing. Their children are filling our universities, which is great; if only ours were too.<BR/> Carrying our little ones is the single most important thing we can do in any child's life. If forced to choose, science teaches us they choose our tender touch and put it before nutrition! <BR/><BR/>I am glad you have this blog. We need to bring this message to more of us in the west.<BR/><BR/>Thanks Judy. Keep on Carryin'.<BR/><BR/>ColinColinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11052227589625413683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049827109069865472.post-70910508943725993482008-12-01T15:09:00.000-08:002008-12-01T15:09:00.000-08:00Thanks for the story, Judy! It stands for everything that I believe in as a parent: attachment parenting, family bed, child-led weaning,tending to a child's cry right away, using the Trekker, using mom as a toy, etc. It bothers me that they don't make all strollers with reversible handles anymore. I need to communicate with my child with my voice, expressions; face to face time! How can I soothe my child if she's facing the wind for companionship? It's all about our children, not society; they don't know what's best for our children, only we do!Bevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294386000682381507noreply@blogger.com