“ Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years deep in the South American jungle with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.”
“According to Jean Liedloff, the continuum concept is the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings — especially babies — require the kind of experience to which our species adapted during the long process of our evolution. For an infant, these include such experiences as...
Source: http://www.continuum-concept.org/cc_defined.html
Left: Women from Yequana Tribe that Jean Liedloff Lived With
Right: Children learn how to care for babies at a young age.
Caption: The baby is at ease when in physical contact with his mother as the mother performs her daily work
The Tragic Child Raising Practices of the West
“In contrast, a baby subjected to modern Western childbirth and child-care practices often experiences...
Evolution has not prepared the human infant for this kind of experience. He cannot comprehend why his desperate cries for the fulfillment of his innate expectations go unanswered, and he develops a sense of wrongness and shame about himself and his desires. If, however, his continuum expectations are fulfilled — precisely at first, with more variation possible as he matures — he will exhibit a natural state of self-assuredness, well-being and joy. Infants whose continuum needs are fulfilled during the early, in-arms phase grow up to have greater self-esteem and become more independent than those whose cries go unanswered for fear of ‘spoiling’ them or making them too dependent.”
Source: http://www.continuum-concept.org/cc_defined.html
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