Being part of a healthy family is of utmost importance. Healthy families, which can include blood relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are the building blocks of healthy culture in our community. If someone is single, we will make it easy for them to find a family which they can be a part of. This will help the nuclear family as well as help a single person who may not be with their family. As a mother and grandmother, I want to make this community welcoming to my former husbands, children, their spouses and grandchildren. Even if relatives are not vegan (only Cliff, my former husband is vegan), I want them to feel welcome to come to participate in the intergenerational learning center which serves home schoolers, and the various activities that go on in our village. I envision that people who are not vegan will be positively influenced by our vegan lifestyle but without pressure or judgement on our part.

Because I have live with families and in communities which did not share my child raising philosophy, I realize that I am not willing to live in a community that has aspects of parenting such as corporal punishment and other qualities which causes me great distress. This distress caused so much conflict within me and with others that I ended up being kicked out of a few living situations when I spoke up about my concerns.

Because I have raised my children with a philosophy called Attachment Parenting, and I see the positive results, I want people to seriously consider using this philosophy. If someone has a better way or equally as valid way to raise children, then we can talk about it. But if potential members read this and think that attachment parenting is far away from their style of parenting, they probably would not enjoy living here.

Here is a summary that Artificial Intelligence has supplied:

“Attachment Parenting according to Dr. William Sears:

Core Principles:

1. Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting: Dr. Sears emphasizes the importance of preparing for parenthood, including emotional and physical readiness.
2. Birth Bonding: Encourages immediate skin-to-skin contact and bonding between mother and baby after birth.
3. Breastfeeding: Promotes breastfeeding as the primary source of nutrition and a means of bonding.
4. Baby Wearing: Recommends using slings or carriers to keep babies close and promote bonding.
5. Bedding Close to Baby: Suggests co-sleeping or having the baby’s bed nearby to facilitate closeness and bonding.
6. Belief in the Language of the Baby’s Cry: Encourages parents to respond to their baby’s cries and understand their language.
7. Beware of Baby Trainers: Warns against using baby trainers or rigid schedules, instead advocating for a more flexible and responsive approach.
8. Balance: Emphasizes the importance of balancing parents’ needs with their baby’s needs.

Key Concepts:

• Mutual Sensitivity: Describes the developing sensitivity between parents and babies, allowing for more effective communication and bonding.
• Delight: Stresses the importance of delighting in one’s baby and oneself, rather than focusing solely on behaviors or external expectations.
• Commonsense Parenting: Positions Attachment Parenting as a natural and intuitive approach, rather than a rigid or extreme philosophy.

Key Quotes:

• “Attachment parenting has been around as long as there have been mothers and babies. It is in, in fact, only recently that this style of parenting has needed a name at all, for it is basically the commonsense parenting we all would do if left to our own healthy resources.” (The Baby Book)
• “So many of the ideas of attachment parenting are in the culture even if you don’t believe in Dr. Sears per se.” (The Man Who Remade Motherhood)

Overall, Dr. Sears’ Attachment Parenting philosophy emphasizes the importance of closeness, bonding, and responsiveness between parents and babies, while rejecting rigid schedules and external expectations. It is rooted in his own experiences as a pediatrician and parent, as well as his understanding of human development and attachment theory.”

More from AI:

“Based on the provided search results, it appears that Jean Liedloff’s book “The Continuum Concept” (1975) influenced the development of Attachment Parenting (AP) philosophy. Specifically:

• Liedloff’s ideas on the importance of continuous physical contact, breastfeeding, and co-sleeping, among other practices, resonated with William Sears, a pediatrician who later developed the concept of Attachment Parenting.
• Sears initially referred to his philosophy as “the new continuum concept” and “immersion mothering” before linking it with attachment theory and adopting the term “attachment parenting” in 1985.
• The Sears’ philosophy, which emphasized the importance of physical touch, responsiveness, and empathy, built upon Liedloff’s concepts, incorporating them into their own approach to parenting.

While Liedloff’s book did not directly create the philosophy of Attachment Parenting, it seems to have played a significant role in shaping Sears’ ideas and influencing the development of AP. Therefore, it can be said that the philosophy of Attachment Parenting was indirectly influenced by Liedloff’s book, “The Continuum Concept”.”

This article is from the website: https://continuumconcept.org/articles/adopt-an-adult-orphan

From Many customs of the Yequana are directed toward meeting the requirements for emotional well-being that will keep people feeling social. Their maintenance of what we call law and order does not include law, only internal, individual order, based on the assumption that man only becomes anti-social when deprived of the support appropriate for all humans.

Illness, pain, bereavement, hunger, isolation or humiliation, if allowed to become too intense or too enduring, can exhaust a person’s powers of adaptation, of resilience. The result is a measure of bitterness, resentment, jealousy, frustration, anger, despair or loneliness. The natural inclination to protect and further the interests of one’s people will become strained and distorted. A sense of natural justice will suggest that a person withdraw his endeavors from the common cause and put them toward his own interests, as the support of others is withdrawn from him.

The Yequana are careful not to allow this to happen by providing for any eventuality that puts a strain on the individual’s ability to take such stresses in stride. For instance, the best hunters and fishermen share their catches with everyone so that hunger and jealousy cannot build up in their neighbors. Grief is mitigated by appropriate demonstrations of solidarity. People do not ever try to persuade one another to change their minds by using emotional pressure. Humiliation is sensitively precluded, and no one is expected to live alone. Thus, the “adoption” of orphaned adults.

In this rich atmosphere of respect and provision for these human needs, not just the gross ones of food and shelter but the complex social requirements, the Yequana enjoy their high state of well-being.