“Touch provides its own language of compassion, a language that is essential to what it means to be human.
In fact, in other research I’ve found that people can not only identify love, gratitude, and compassion from touches but can differentiate between those kinds of touch, something people haven’t done as well in studies of facial and vocal communication.”
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“I quickly realized that I didn't have the physical ability, time, money, energy, or honest desire to do all of these things all of the time. It was so exhausting. Unfortunately, by then, I was so indoctrinated into the lifestyle that I thought that stopping meant I was going to seriously screw up my kids. It took me a long time, some soul-searching, finding like-minded parent friends, and watching my babies grow into caring kids to discover that raising awesome humans is not dependent on a rigid set of guidelines (that are actually pretty sexist, ableist, and classist when you think about it). All you need is love to bond with your kids, and I love them way more now that I'm not trying too hard to be someone I'm not. For these, and a few other reasons, I think we have got to stop romanticizing attachment parenting.”