reassurance about Crying It Out

Definately. So many of us have been there. (Or are still there, too.) Being the Groung Breaker or the Sole Light in a Dark Room, ect is part of being a CONSCIOUS PARENT. I think all who think are striving for Consciousness, that's one of the reasons we are on THIS site, and why things like Attachment are often seen as "Hippy Freak" concepts. (You gotta see Dr. Sears, the farthest thing from a Hippy. LOL!)

There is a telling passage in the book The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolfe, about The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey and the beginnings of the 1960s Striving for Consciousness Hippy Movement. Mountain Girl, one of the Merry Ones, (and later common Law Wife of Jerry Garcia, and mother to a few of his children) has a baby, a few months old. Mountain Girl is wondering what she should do, as her baby, Sunshine (guess where I got the name for MY Sunshine?) keeps crying and Girl just nursed her. Someone suggests she just "let her cry, she will just get spoiled. My mother let me cry." Or something like that. Mountain Girl thinks about it for a second, shurgs, lifts her shirt and nurses Sunshine. A truely Decisive Moment for Hippy Mamas and Any Mamas anywhere.

I'm sorry I called Abryn a "him." I am having a problem with gender lately. I've gotten about 3 or 4 people the wrong gender lately. Sorry. She's beautiful.

 

I've actually caught myself doing that too, Tamee. Leaving Moire to cry, just losing myself in some unknown need instilled in me by how I was raised. But I always snap out of it and pick her up right away. But that does nothing to stop the guilt factor.

And haha Maggie, AP is a "Hippy Freak" way. Damn Straight!

 

that's funny. my mom calls me a hippy freak...in a loving way, though. I think it impresses her.

 

Who got hufty? I didn't see any hufty!

and what's a normal name?

 

I didn't give Abryn her name, it's the name she came with...

 

werd! I have one of the most common names and let me tell you I hate it! Every time someone says "Jenn" I think they're talking to me.

 

Your name is common, not normal. My name is common too. So is my husband's. Thus why Moire has her name. It's definitely not common. At least not in this country.

But yeah, normal names don't exist. Just common ones.

 

true dat.