Seriously Sleepy Mommy today.
I am sleepier and stupider than usual today. Not sure what’s going on. Trying to bring household back from brink of systemic failure; not succeeding.
A good discussion’s of attachment parenting going on over at HMS Blog. It started with a discussion of babies nursing at night and it’s kind of growing.
Here’s a good post from Greg Popcak:
All day long, I deal with adults who doubt that anyone cares about them, who feel alone and detached, and who believe that when they cry out to God, Our Father, He just stands there, detached, looking at them but not doing anything (except, perhaps chuckling softly while they struggle in the darkness). When I think that the education of this mindset begins in infancy and toddlerhood, it makes me want to cry.
Perhaps, if we as parents stopped just thinking about the minimum daily requirement we need to give our kids in order that their biological needs are met, and started giving what we must give to nuture the whole self, and not just what is convenient for us to give, I wouldn’t personally have to field about a hundred calls a week from people from people who just want to know that somebody out there loves them.
If this is the way most people parent, it’s no damn wonder pharmacy reps joke about Prozac being so popular that they might as well put it in the water system.