Ashley Nichols’s Reviews > The Mindful Parent: Strategies from Peaceful Cultures to Raise Compassionate, Competent Kids > Status Update

“You are a beloved of the universe.
You are as beautiful as the sunrise, and as ancient as the stars.
You are a spark of divine love in human form.
Through you goodness and and light flow into this world. - Laurel Bleadon-Maffei

“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another. - Jack Kornfield”

“I am happy to say that all of my grandchildren are kind.
It’s very important to me that people are kind.
I must be kind to myself first.
- Maya Angelou”

“It’s important to have empathy for your partner and realize that each of you is adding to the family in a different way.”

The best things in life aren’t things. - Art Buchwald

This 40 year US experiment of childcare directly after birth has had time to show results. We have the highest number of kids taking psychiatric meds in the world. It’s time to fight for children’s rights indeed.

Early insecure parental attachment leads to problem solving, regulating emotions, trusting others. Daycare at 6 weeks equals insecure parental attachment. So that’s cool. I guess we’re number one in fucked up kids.

“Childcare was not invented for children’s sakes, but for adult needs... studies conducted, to the dismay of many, have shown that babies cared for out of their homes by nonrelated providers experience high levels of stress that can be damaging to emotional, social, and psychological development.” They go on to discuss how childcare leads to peer attachment over parent attachment. Increasing school shootings?

“prescribed anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications, which indicated to this new mom that her discomfort with being separated from her infant was a mental disorder! ... I told her that her feelings were completely normal and meant that she had a healthy attachment to her baby.” This mom is upset leaving her baby before their even done breastfeeding. This is ridiculous. Ssris/ssnis for a natural reaction.

“not investing in families means that we will continue to fall behind other countries on many yardsticks, from having the highest infant mortality rate among developed countries (47 countries rank better than the US), and the highest incarceration rate”