Maybe this is where we are going wrong with

[leftyladyfrommo]

modern day child rearing.

I love the great apes. If I had it to do again I would have trained to work with them.

Watch how all the apes raise successful children. They all keep their babies right with them for several years. They hug and kiss all the time. They are very hands on for years. And everybody hugs everybody. And there is a very fixed social structure that works to protect the whole group.
I was raised by non emotional, non touching people. No one had physical contact with anybody.

And I am a terrible loner. I think early humans raised their infants pretty much the same way. I think they may be on to something important. It seems to work.

[cbabe]

1. Mom on her phone. Kid in stroller with a device. No human

touch or talk or tickle or laugh or singing.

Started years ago and I thought: we’re in trouble now.

[TexLaProgressive]

2. Hillary said it, :It takes a village"

Was taking about the changes in families in the USA. My own experience of being surrounded as a child by all sorts of telative besides parent and siblings - cousins, aunts, great aunts, one great great aunt, uncles, great uncles grandparents and more.

I took umbridge with the term, nuclear family - man, woman and 2.1 children. Where was the rest of the family?

I think a lot of it is the mobility of our society that began with the demobilization of military people in the 2 big wars. Men who had never been away from their place of birth settled down in places like the east and west coasts, married, bought a GI tract house and had chilldren far from the rest of family.

I have to admit that moost of my family, especially the south Lousianan brach were warm and expressive in love and affection for each other.. I’m not ssaying perfect because that doesn’t exist, but we loved each other regardless of our iimperfections.

I know nastalgia tends to paint the past as wonderful. But I have grandchildren that are all over the USA. That is common in today’s USA.