An unschooling home education journey for Reuben, born 2008, Isaac, born 2010, and their very fortunate parents who get to share in it, learn more amazing stuff and muck about shamelessly!
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Really living the Continuum
Ok, this is going to upset some people. I've been thinking a lot about how much we're really living in a way true to our human continuum and how we can reconcile it with the society we live in without having to move to the wilderness (although I'm often tempted). So a few days ago on a continuum concept inspired facebook group there was a suggestion that we have a get together for a summer break. Great! I immediately said we would go. Many comments later I realized that it would mainly be the mothers and this children with the partners not interested in going. Maybe I'm just lucky in the sense that my partner is very much a part of a continuum family unit, he sleeps with Mr Baby and carries him as well as being interested in all the books I have read and wanting to experience a different type of parenting from the one we had. We were keen to see how other families were doing it and were very surprised to see that, at least in the UK, it just seems to be the mums doing it. But doesn't that defy the point? A big part of the book was that women should not bring children up in isolation, so if women in the UK are still being left at home alone all day, it's great we're breastfeeding, babywearing and co-sleeping but shouldn't we call it just Attachment Parenting? Saying that we are Continuum families is just not correct. That probably applies to me as well, even though I have a like minded partner we are still a nuclear family (the rest of my family is in Italy and my partner's in Sussex) so my children are not part of a supportive tribe.
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