thank you for these!! im not a parent (om only 14), but i know that i want to either go into childcare, early childhood development, or child psychology. Of course, I won't exactly be able to have ALL this information until i go into a childcare class in high school and college, but i LOVE your videos. they're so very informational and easy to understand. working with children is a passion of mine, and im so glad to have this series in i time where i can't exactly go to school for it yet because they make me feel so informed.
Thank you so much for this! You have described exactly what I intuitively did with my first and am now doing with my second but every time I see people talking about sleep training and not breastfeeding to sleep I start to think I am crazy and maybe doing it wrong
I have a troubling question Sarah. Shortly before we went into the first lockdown I asked one of my friends from my Bible study group how he had come to be a Christian. He told me that he had been born into a Christian home, but that the turning point for him was when he was about 12. He told me that before that he had been "a dysfunctional individual" as he was manipulative and had no self-control. When I asked him why he thought he was that way he gave no reason other than he was simply a bad person. He said that he experienced a revelation of God's love for him and decided that he didn't want to be that person anymore. He now sees it as God making him a better person. However, judging by what I've read about gentle parenting and child development, I'm pretty sure that there was a hidden problem that he didn't realize that he had. From what I hear sometimes, it seems that God doesn't care about child development or why someone is behaving the way that they are, he just sees it as unacceptable behavior that needs to be dealt with. I do know that my friend was spanked as a child, so that MAY have had something to do with it. I have read that we teach babies to be manipulative by how we shush them from very early on, thereby giving them the message that they can't be up front and direct with us. I'm just interested to hear what you think.
I suspect there was harsh authoritarian punishment usage in his home. I wouldn't be surprised if it was physical - and thus the trauma and his subsequent response.
@@SarahOckwellSmith Thank you for your reply! I read and re-read your work almost daily and while I do make an effort to raise awareness of gentle parenting techniques and how I don't believe people are inherently bad, I am proceeding with extreme caution with regards to how and when I go about communicating it all.
