Christine on Listening: when it comes to the most instinctual, biological, mental, and physically connected relationship we will ever have, when and why did we stop listening to ourselves? when did it become the norm to listen to other people- strangers, most of them- tell us how we should raise our kids? when did we start overlooking our instincts and begin searching for a behavioral diagnosis in the index of some book written by someone who doesnt know us, our child, our family, our home life, or anything about us from our neighbors? when did we stop exploring the depths of our own intuition and begin blindly handing off that responsibility to someone who knows our child as nothing but a statistic? weve stopped listening to ourselves and to our bodies. weve stopped listening to mother nature in favor of theory and the newest, trendiest, best thing or parenting philosophy. even worse, as a result of all of the noise absorption, we have begun teaching our children that someone else will know better and more about their life than they ever could. this needs to end. i wear my baby because my instincts told me long ago that i should and i listened. people have questioned me in the past, announcing that carrying her for too long will derail marlo from finding her independence. i disagree, i tell them. and if you ever meet marlo, youd understand that that particular hypothesis doesnt hold much weight with her, either. i listen to my gut instincts, ones so strong that id be a fool not to listen. and i listen to marlo. i hear her. i hear her wants, her needs, her development, her love for me, her dad, and the people around her. i listen to what works for us. Read the rest of @thec_words latest Sling Diary entry by hopping over to her blog: thec-word/2014/03/the-sling-diaries-vol-iv-everything.html ❤️ #christineslingdiary #theslingdiaries #sakurabloom #toddlerwearing #babywearing #bigkidwearing #listening #love #parenting #instinct #sakurabloomeverythingshines #theslingdiaries
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:28:15 +0000
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