I have some of my favorite books on the subject: Summerhill, A Radical Approach to Child Rearing Liberated Parents, Liberated Children Indigo Children Deschooling our Lives Has anyone read any of these? I would like to start an alternative parenting forum if there is an interest. anyone? anyone?
i skimmed thru indigo children a while ago. i've read a bit about unschooling (not the book on your list though) and if we had a sudbury school around here, i'd probably choose that for my son. do we need another forum to talk about parenting? as far as im concerned, i think that the kind of parenting philosophy that you're talking about shouldnt necessarily be considered 'alternative'. i think that there's a bit of a paradigm shift happening with the way that most people regard children. at least i hope there is!
I have to disagree about the shift in attitudes towards children. I mean it is happening, but i still think that the way i choose to parent my child goes against the "grain" it is still not accepted where i live to not immunize my child, or make the choice to deschool, or to have natural childbirth, or even to make the decision to have a family bed.
really? the closest sudbury school to us is in edmonton. from what i hear there's a really active community of "alt" parents up there. i've lived in a small community in southern alberta, and i can see that it would have been like raising a child in the dark ages there. if you live in a place like that, i can see where you're coming from though. you'd be like a beacon of light illuminating the darkness. i'm in bc, and there are a LOT of people who dont immunize, who do non-public school, natural family living, etc. even the "mainstreamers" do a lot of the so-called "alternative" parenting things. i say be a shining example of what is possible!
You are free to start your own forum, of course, but we discuss a lot of parenting here. A LOT of people consider "Attachment Parenting" as "alternative" too (a lot of the parents here Atttach) and this forum is open to discussing parenting in general or in specific. I've always felt the mamas and papas on this site were a lot more open to "alternative" parenting than on square sites like (oh gosh) BabyCenter LOL! (I always consider places like Babycenter the "junk food, spanking, "showing the kid whose boss" and detachment sites.") Feel free to explain and discuss Indigo here, I would find it really interesting.
