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wild (but not uncultivated) musings of a Canadian unschool momHome | Archives | contact Attached Parenting after Toddlerhood2:05 PM - Mar. 14, 2008 - Add to the Wildness
I didn’t even realize I was doing it, till it hit me as an afterthought. We were at music lessons. Three of the four kids partake in turns, while I try to keep the rest quiet on the couch there in the studio. The kids were all a little nuts. It had been a long week and a half, with Fine Arts Festival events in dance, singing and piano. They’d just finished the last of them. I, too, was exhausted. I stretched out on the couch and let my five and seven-year-olds climb on me. They sat snuggled together in my arms and played finger games with each other, inventing the rules as they went. Adorable. My ten-year-old sat reading at my feet, so I silently started playing a clapping game with her, foot-to-foot. I whispered a couple of lines of a clapping rhyme. She caught on and grinned at me. The little ones adjusted their positions, one lying on top of me and the other beside me. I felt like a mama cat with her litter. Even the almost-twelve year old Spazzerific often hugs me or leans on me. Attached parenting is mostly about welcoming contact with our children. Contact calms them. During the Festival performances, I rubbed the five-year-old’s back because it kept him relatively still. Contact is good for a parent’s heart too. It reminds me that they’re still my babies, even though there are times when it seems they’ve been replaced by oversized mutants with cracking voices and clumsy feet. If gentle, attached parenting is what your kids have known since babyhood, there’s no reason to change. ____________ © Copyright Cathi-Lyn Dyck 2005-2008
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