I think that, to get to "radical," you'd have to be raising your kids in a cabin in the middle of the woods without electricity, or something like that. Attachment parenting is totally within the range of upper-middle-class suburban parenting styles I'm seen from my friends, and unschooling is a bit further out there, but I've met several people who do it.
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Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:35:33 pm PST #11934 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:36:28 pm PST #11935 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:40:57 pm PST #11936 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, one of the families uses elimination communication. I don't know anybody who does that.
javachik - Mar 03, 2010 3:42:04 pm PST #11937 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
OK, one of the families uses elimination communication. I don't know anybody who does that.
Wait. Isn't that used on American Idol?
Hil R. - Mar 03, 2010 3:44:37 pm PST #11938 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Elimination communication means no diapers. The parent watches the baby to learn the signs that the baby is about to go, and holds the baby over a toilet or potty chair.
I just realized. This family cosleeps, and they don't diaper the baby at night.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2010 3:47:08 pm PST #11939 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are they dirty hippies?
sj - Mar 03, 2010 3:47:09 pm PST #11940 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I just realized. This family cosleeps, and they don't diaper the baby at night.
Co-sleeping with an undiapered baby pings me as radical or alternately just eww.
Poor TCG has caught my cold and gone to bed early. I love him, but I draw the line at going to bed at 8:30.
brenda m - Mar 03, 2010 3:49:19 pm PST #11941 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Well, dirty anyway.
javachik - Mar 03, 2010 3:50:36 pm PST #11942 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Eh, we hashed that out in here before. Most of the world does not use diapers and I am sure most of the world does not like sleeping with pooping babies any more than the rest of us.
I was grossed out though, in more rural areas of China, when I saw the women squatting over the gutters with their eliminating children (the women were not eliminating).
ETA: I was grossed out to begin with, but I actually got used to it and learned to avert my eyes. People adapt, including this middle-aged chick.
Trudy Booth - Mar 03, 2010 3:51:15 pm PST #11943 of 30000
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In a more rural environment I think I'd give that a shot.
a) It stands to reason that if more absorbent diapers makes it harder for them to train, less (or no) absorbent diaper would make it easier.
b) That's sort of what my father did. His brother was eighteen months older than he was. When they potty trained his brother, my dad just followed along with the program. I think he slept in diapers for a while, but from 10 months on he asked to go to the potty when he had to go.