I'm really frustrated about the lack of gd in the world. I know there are many of us who do it, but we seem so few and far between from where I stand. My best friend (one of my two friends since i have such a hard time being friends with people who treat their kids poorly 
) I just found out uses soap in her children's mouths when they lie to her. She also uses hot sauce and other nasty things on her 6yos thumbs so she won't suck (she's been trying to break her of this for a couple of years with no luck).
Other than that she's pretty good about talking to her kids, she doesn't hit....but today she was working at a day care run by a non profit whose goal is to help parents realize that there are better choices when it comes to raising kids than sitting them in front of the tv and spanking them. They are still a little mainstream for my taste, but hey, they're trying. And I know that they have saved some kids from bad stuff. But, back to my issue...when she came home she said that they had a rough day. She was in the infant/toddler room and there was screaming all day. I asked why (because that doesn't seem right to me) and she said in a very disdainful way that there are a couple of babies there whose mothers hold them way too much and they scream all day because they're spoild because of it.
I wish I had a degree in child development or something because then I could offer classes of some sort about attachment parenting, babywearing, natural parenting, gd and all that stuff. I had approached this organization before about seeing if they offered stuff like that, but the people there don't seem to be familiar with that stuff. There are individuals that work there that don't have degrees, but the person that runs it has a masters I think and the 'higher-ups' all have degrees. I don't want to work there, though...I just want to find some way to educate people about this stuff so we don't have daycare workers who get mad at moms who pick their babies up when they cry and tell them it is bad for their development.
) I just found out uses soap in her children's mouths when they lie to her. She also uses hot sauce and other nasty things on her 6yos thumbs so she won't suck (she's been trying to break her of this for a couple of years with no luck).Other than that she's pretty good about talking to her kids, she doesn't hit....but today she was working at a day care run by a non profit whose goal is to help parents realize that there are better choices when it comes to raising kids than sitting them in front of the tv and spanking them. They are still a little mainstream for my taste, but hey, they're trying. And I know that they have saved some kids from bad stuff. But, back to my issue...when she came home she said that they had a rough day. She was in the infant/toddler room and there was screaming all day. I asked why (because that doesn't seem right to me) and she said in a very disdainful way that there are a couple of babies there whose mothers hold them way too much and they scream all day because they're spoild because of it.
I wish I had a degree in child development or something because then I could offer classes of some sort about attachment parenting, babywearing, natural parenting, gd and all that stuff. I had approached this organization before about seeing if they offered stuff like that, but the people there don't seem to be familiar with that stuff. There are individuals that work there that don't have degrees, but the person that runs it has a masters I think and the 'higher-ups' all have degrees. I don't want to work there, though...I just want to find some way to educate people about this stuff so we don't have daycare workers who get mad at moms who pick their babies up when they cry and tell them it is bad for their development.
