Continuum Concept and other stuff Was: Thanks, Suze

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Suze,

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> No problem - yes it did. But falling in love for the first time in my life

> was more of a factor :-)

Yup. That'll do it! Congrats on the falling in love thing.

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> Also, have you read " The Continuum Concept " yet?

> >I thought it was a fantastic and eye-opening read.

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> No - what is it about?

It's by Liedloff, a psychologist/anthropologist/philosopher of sorts

who spent lots of time with the Yequana tribe in South America. It's not a

parenting book per se, but is a description of her encounter with the tribe

and her observations about their ways of child rearing. Basically, the idea

is that constant parental contact with the child (in a sling, sleeping with

you, etc.) early on will provide a solid sense of security and happiness.

It's " attachment parenting " , but also she observed that the culture was not

" child centered " either--that babies WANT to be observers of a busy parent

so they can learn what will eventually be expected of them later in

life--not constantly asked what they want to eat, where they want to go,

etc. Granted, the Yequana social structure is wildly different from our

own, but there are many Western people trying to apply the concepts to their

own parenting. And, of course, there's a discussion list and website:

http://www.continuum-concept.org/ A snapshot of the concept itself can be

found here http://www.continuum-concept.org/cc_defined.html

I highly reccommend it--it's a great complement to NT as the book describes,

quite beautifully, a pre-modern commerce society that works REALLY well.

IIRC, the " G " turned me onto this book and she has used ideas from it to

parent with lots of success.

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> Keep in mind that most (all?) childhood vaccines contain thimerasol, which

> is 50% mercury, I believe. Some manufacturers say their vaccines don't

> contain it, but I believe I read that this is not accurate.

I found this list of mercury-free vaccines:

http://www.nomercury.org/legislative%20committee/documents/thimerosal%20free%20v\

accines.pdf

Obviously, I'll do more research when the time comes (and there are other

concerns about vacs other than mercury, of course) but I didn't know if you

had looked at this.