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Post by km on Oct 15, 2009 10:01:58 GMT -5
How can women who have never gone to college or learned Math/Science at an advanced level possibly provide an adequate education to their children? Wouldn't an effective homeschooling parent need to be a veritable scholar/intellectual?
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Post by km on Oct 15, 2009 11:40:45 GMT -5
Why are so many people involved in the QF lifestyle attracted to homesteading/living off the land practices?
What is the "alternative dominionist economy" that so many homeschooling families are involved in?
How can a secular homeschooling family find social outlets for children without steeping them in extremist Quiverfull ideology? This kind of ideology dominates homeschooling support groups and homeschool conferences throughout the US.
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Post by km on Oct 15, 2009 12:34:20 GMT -5
Is the Duggar family representative of most QF families? They just seem like such nice people!
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Post by km on Oct 15, 2009 12:40:03 GMT -5
Why have some Quiverfullers taken up the practice of "attachment parenting" and/or "re-birthing." Aren't these practices often tantamount to abuse in QF circles?
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Post by susan on Feb 18, 2010 22:42:10 GMT -5
Why have some Quiverfullers taken up the practice of "attachment parenting" and/or "re-birthing." Aren't these practices often tantamount to abuse in QF circles? I'm not familiar with rebirthing. I do know some QF/P/fundamentalist-leaning people who adapt some aspects of Attachment Parenting into their parenting of babies -- i.e. nursing-on-cue instead of scheduling, child-led weaning, baby-wearing, and co-sleeping. However, I think most fundamentalists believe that there's a point when parents need to start spanking for misbehavior -- so they're not so likely to embrace Attachment Parenting wholeheartedly beyond infancy (most fundamentalists think it's "unScriptural" to not spank). One of my friends got more open to AP after learning that Jesus was breastfed for about 3 years. So, the last I talked with her, she was breastfeeding her babies for 3 years, which is pretty cool, considering that most babies in the U.S. are weaned by 6 months (if they get breastfed at all). But my friend thought that going much beyond 3 or 4 years was a bit odd. I shared with her about how our most closely-related primates breastfeed for about 5 years ... but she didn't see that as relevant to humans ... Which reminds me, I think it's the Ezzos who warn parents that Attachment Parenting is based on Evolutionary theory. Which I think makes a lot of fundamentalist mothers feel wary about listening too much to the ideas ... If I'm remembering right, the Ezzos critique the AP idea that human babies have evolved to expect a certain kind of treatment when they are born ... such as to have immediate and continuous skin-to-skin contact -- And also the idea that human gestation lasts for 18 months, but our brain size requires us to be born while we can still pass through the opening, so AP recommends that mothers think in terms of carrying their babies for 9 months in the womb, and for another 9 months out of the womb. I think the Ezzos, like other babytrainers, prefer to think of babies NOT as coming into the world with expectations that parents should try to fill -- but, rather, as coming into the world ready to be molded to suit the parents' expectations. Of course, even La Leche League talks about how human milk has been perfected over millions of years of Evolution ... so I imagine that some Christian mamas get warned about LLL, too.
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