continuum concept (1 Viewer)

[VARUKA]

have been researchin this for a while before baby popped out,now usin it cause it sounds good but will it work in the long run...is there anyone out there usin it and what are their views on this way of raisin a child.

 

[snakybus]

what is it? expand

 

[Corey]

If it does'nt involve batin' lumps out of them at regular intervals then i'm not interested.

 

[VARUKA]

According to Jean Liedloff, the continuum concept is the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings — especially babies — require the kind of experience to which our species adapted during the long process of our evolution. For an infant, these include such experiences as...

• constant physical contact with his mother (or another familiar caregiver as needed) from birth;
• sleeping in his parents' bed, in constant physical contact, until he leaves of his own volition (often about two years);
• breastfeeding "on cue" — nursing in response to his own body's signals;
• being constantly carried in arms or otherwise in contact with someone, usually his mother, and allowed to observe (or nurse, or sleep) while the person carrying him goes about his or her business — until the infant begins creeping, then crawling on his own impulse, usually at six to eight months;
• having caregivers immediately respond to his signals (squirming, crying, etc.), without judgment, displeasure, or invalidation of his needs, yet showing no undue concern nor making him the constant center of attention;
• sensing (and fulfilling) his elders' expectations that he is innately social and cooperative and has strong self-preservation instincts, and that he is welcome and worthy.

In contrast, a baby subjected to modern Western childbirth and child-care practices often experiences...

• traumatic separation from his mother at birth due to medical intervention and placement in maternity wards, in physical isolation except for the sound of other crying newborns, with the majority of male babies further traumatized by medically unnecessary circumcision surgery;
• at home, sleeping alone and isolated, often after "crying himself to sleep";
• scheduled feeding, with his natural nursing impulses often ignored or "pacified";
• being excluded and separated from normal adult activities, relegated for hours on end to a nursery, crib or playpen where he is inadequately stimulated by toys and other inanimate objects;
• caregivers often ignoring, discouraging, belittling or even punishing him when he cries or otherwise signals his needs; or else responding with excessive concern and anxiety, making him the center of attention;
• sensing (and conforming to) his caregivers' expectations that he is incapable of self-preservation, is innately antisocial, and cannot learn correct behavior without strict controls, threats and a variety of manipulative "parenting techniques" that undermine his exquisitely evolved learning process.

taken from http://www.continuum-concept.org/

 

[snakybus]

not into the kid sleeping with the parents

you need to get some sleep too

but whatever works for you, y'know

 

[nlgbbbblth]

what we did

0 to 6 months - bed
6 - 9 months - cot in our room
9 months onwards - cot in their own room

Rebecca has just got into stage 2.

 

[pete]

saw a bit about it on channel 4's Bringing Up Baby. some of it is awful hippy bollocks altogether. i wasn't impressed.

 

[billygannon]

We had Bea in an Amby until she could roll around on to her tummy. That was at six months. Should last until nine months to a year.

Some ideas in the continuum concept are good although, like everything else, in moderation.

 

[Corey]

Bat-shit crazyness.

We dont live in mud flats anymore. And 'Modern Western Childcare practices' are there because we live in the Modern West. They're only guidlines.

Improvise, man.

 

[Willie Willions]

It says this on the title page of the site:
"I don't know whether the world can be saved by a book, but if it could be, this might just be the book."



You should do everything the book says.

 

[pete]

The part of the TV show when all the contiuum concept kids were playing with kitchen knives was good.

 

[VARUKA]

The part of the TV show when all the contiuum concept kids were playing with kitchen knives was good.

didn't see that program but i used to play with knives,guns and other things wich go boom when i was a kid...the school taught the kids these things for self defence and so on...now i can defuse a bomb and make knifes and guns useless.




great to see there's somuch debate on this topic.