| Raising your kids by your gut feeling and instincts, that | | | | and other such basic matters. |
| what many people consider natural parenting. This is | | | | Not too long ago, only a few decades, natural |
| the way millions of parents all over the globe raise their | | | | parenting was the de facto parenting technique that |
| children. However, there are other types of parenting | | | | nobody questioned. Today when parents attend |
| too. There is guided parenting, where parents learn | | | | parenting workshops, make unending appointments |
| how to parent through books, workshops, research, | | | | with the pediatrician, keep researching on every |
| journals and articles. Usually such people are walking | | | | aspect of bringing up children, parenting loses its charm, |
| encyclopedias on matters regarding parenting -- | | | | warmth and spontaneity. |
| however, in real life; they are as puzzled by the | | | | In today's society natural parenting has definitely been |
| subject as any other parent. | | | | relegated to second place. Parents today pay more |
| Every animal on this planet has parenting instincts. Look | | | | attention to what the latest research says about how |
| around you -- whether it is the spider, or the cat, or | | | | to raise children, instead of letting the auto-pilot take |
| your pet dog or the fish in your fish -- every species | | | | over. Unfortunately, the results are not so good when |
| have their own natural parenting methods. Humans | | | | natural parenting takes the back seat. Children need to |
| raise their young in their particular manner. And if left to | | | | be free and happy, and a growing movement is |
| the gut feeling, they can manage pretty well, too. | | | | beginning to see how natural parenting can create the |
| However, there is too much information floating around | | | | environment for children to naturally prosper. |
| in so many forms, which confuses parents and make | | | | It is very difficult for a natural bond to form between |
| them flounder in this basic task. | | | | parent and child when the child is raised according to |
| As an example, it is completely natural to breastfeed | | | | someone else's idea of what is proper and correct. |
| an infant. This basic parenting task usually does not | | | | The best way of parenting is to trust your instinct to |
| require any teaching or instruction. However, there are | | | | tell you what is right and what is wrong. Trusting your |
| so many advertisements, articles, and TV shows on | | | | gut is the essence of natural parenting, and even |
| the "right way" to do it, that the mother feels lost even | | | | though you'll still make mistakes, know that your kids |
| on this basic matter. The same applies to more | | | | appreciate the fact that you're just human. |
| complex matters such as nutrition, how to feed a child, | | | | |