Bring about World Peace

Holding your child when they need it is one of the most wonderful gifts we can give to our children. They feel safe, loved, wanted and respected. As parents we learn to respond to their actions and they to ours.
Attachment Parenting will give the world more Gandhi of loving strong and bonding and less Hitler a product of sever abuse violence and humiliation.
Pam Leo’s book Connection Parenting “Parenting through Connection instead of Coercion, Through Love instead of Fear” helps us to understand ways to do this. The Sears family have written many books with wonderful suggestions, which we can try.

Look at James Prescott PhD Article How Culture Shapes the Developing Brain and the Future of Humanity.

http://www.kindredmedia.com.au/info/how_culture_shapes_the_developing_brain_and_the_future_of_humanity/57/1

Here is an extract from that article if you don’t want to follow the link.

Ten Principles of Mother-Infant Bonding to Change the World

The following changes are essential if this new cultural brain of the infant/child/teen is to be developed. These changes would provide for a greater comprehensive structure of cultural change for the assurance of peaceful individuals and cultures.

1. Every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

2. Every pregnancy has proper nutrition and prenatal care — medical and psychological — and is free from a toxic womb of alcohol, drugs, tobacco and other toxic agents of stress.

3. Natural birthing.

4. No genital mutilation (circumcision).

5. Breastfeeding on demand for two years of age or beyond.

6. Intimate body contact — babywearing during first year (and co-sleeping for the first two years and beyond).

7. Immediate comforting is given to infants and children who are crying. No infant/child should ever be permitted to cry itself to sleep — day or night.

8. Infants and children are for hugging and should never be physically hit for any reason or humiliated.

9. Infants and children are honoured and should never be humiliated nor emotionally abused for any reason. The emerging sexuality of every child is respected.

10. Mothers must be honoured and not replaced by any institutional day care because it harms children under five years of age.

James W. Prescott, Ph.D.