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The Natural Child

Parenting from the Heart

by Jan Hunt
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Discover an age-old parenting method that treats children with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion from infancy into adulthood.
The Natural Child makes a compelling case for a return to attachment parenting, a child-rearing approach that has come naturally for parents throughout most of human history. In this insightful guide, parenting specialist Jan Hunt links together attachment parenting principles with child advocacy and homeschooling philosophies, offering a consistent approach to raising a loving, trusting, and confident child.
The Natural Child dispels the myths of "tough love," building baby's self-reliance by ignoring its cries, and the necessity of spanking to enforce discipline. Instead, the book explains the value of extended breast-feeding, family co-sleeping, and minimal child-parent separation.
Homeschooling, like attachment parenting, nurtures feelings of self-worth, confidence, and trust. The author draws on respected leaders of the homeschool movement such as John Taylor Gatto and John Holt, guiding the reader through homeschool approaches that support attachment parenting principles.
Being an ally to children is spontaneous for caring adults, but intervening on behalf of a child can be awkward and surrounded by social taboo. The Natural Child shows how to stand up for a child's rights effectively and sensitively in many difficult situations. The role of caring adults, points out Hunt, is not to give children "lessons in life"—but to employ a variation of The Golden Rule, and treat children as we would like to have been treated in childhood.
Praise for The Natural Child
"I had grown jaded with the flood of parenting books, but The Natural Child is a rare and splendid exception . . . . I can't praise it sufficiently, and would place it along with Leidloff's Continuum Concept and my own Magical Child . . . . It could make an enormous difference if read widely enough." —Joseph Chilton Pierce, author of The Magical Child
"In prose that is at the same time eloquent and simple, [Hunt] provides a mix of useful parenting tips that are supported by the philosophy that children reflect the treatment they receive. This is no less than an impassioned plea for the future—not only our children's future, but the future of our way oof life on this planet." —Wendy Priesnitz, Editor, Natural Life Magazine

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    September 17, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781550923247

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