I got it! The Continuum Concept

[frontierpsych]

It came in the mail today!

I hope it helps me as much as it did those who reccomended it.

[Imogen]

It's an interesting book, although I didn't agree with a lot of what the author said. There was some useful information in there though


Peace

[frontierpsych]

It really did open my eyes a lot to how our society has engrained certain things in us so deeply that we truely believe them to be human nature. I did not agree on everything in the book, especially the bit about homosexuality (of course, I don't see homosexuality as something to be "prevented") but I guess take what makes sense and leave the rest, right? I've become very good at that. The author is as human as any of us, and makes some very interesting points, some I agree with and some I don't. But the facts and experiences she shared were what I found most valuable.

I may have found this book more hard to swallow had I not used to babysit for a child who was raised more or less in a continuum environment. He, like the Yequana toddlers the author talked about, was able to judge for himself, at a very young age, his abilities and the relative safety of objects around him. He rarely fussed, even when minorly injured, and had no seperation anxiety (I watched him fairly consistently from 6 months to 3 years of age). I will definitely be taking into account some of the lessons the author learned.