Caring, Whether For Children Or

You Read A Bunch Of Books And You Get A Bunch Of How-tos, And You Take A Bunch Of Classes And You Learn A Bunch Of Techniques. You Set Yourself Goals And Benchmarks. I Think People Have Imported That Into Their Experience Of Taking Care Of Children.

Caring For Children Has Always Been One Of The Deepest And Most Satisfying Things That A Human Being Does, And Yet It Is Hard To Keep A Healthy Attitude Toward It In Our Competitive, Outcome-oriented Society.

Putting Together Philosophy And Children Would Have Been Difficult For Most Of History. But Very Fortunately For Me, When I Started Graduate School There Was A Real Scientific Revolution Taking Place In Developmental Psychology.

Instead Of Just Saying, "i Love My Baby And I Pick Him Up Because He's Adorable And It's So Nice To Cuddle With Him," We Practice Attachment Parenting. We Let Our Children Play Outside And Have Age-appropriate Freedoms And Are Labeled Free-range Parents.

We Don't Measure The Quality Of Our Other Relationships By How Well The Other Person Turns Out, For Instance Whether My Husband Is A Better Person After 10 Years Than He Was When I First Met Him.