by Dr Ana Garcia Phd

Created on: May 24, 2009   Last Updated: May 28, 2009

Are we manufacturing our children?

We live in a society that is completely separated from the Natural world and the Natural law that guides all living creatures.

We have built concrete jungles and have created a consumist society focused in superficial values, where acquisition, accumulation and stock-piling of possessions is of high priority; whether we need them or not, we acquire things simply for the reason of having them because they are there. We feel we need everything we see advertised... We seem to have lost control of seeing the difference between needing and wanting, and believe that what we want is what we need.

Until one day, a major change in our life may bring us the experience of having to do without: we may find ourselves in a crossroad where we may need to start afresh in a new country, or we have a baby, or we lose our job, and other similar situations that break the inertia and routine of our everyday life.

Part of the set-up in our lives may involve children.

After years of building a particular lifestyle, we manage to finally completely organise our life when our children arrive.

We think that they must fit in the system that already exists. We resist making any substantial changes mainly because of the loss of the independence and freedom we used to enjoy. And rather than following our children's natural prompts and flow with their needs (specially at the beginning when they are babies) we follow guidance such as:

Sleep training - or the process of breaking our baby's spirit by leaving him or her cry until s/he gives up. How will this nurture the child's trust in the world?

Stop breastfeeding it is inconvenient, hard to do, limits your independence and mobility, it is not sociably acceptable. But the result is that we clutter their guts with man-made foodstuff, too much meat protein, sugars, sweets, and convenient foods in general anything in a jar. How will this strengthen their immune system, endocrine system, nervous system to mention but a few?

Mother confusion - We get them raised by nannies of different kinds (day nanny, night nurse, au-pair, creche, etc) understandable if the mother must go to work. Who are they creating a bond with? If you are a mother, would you like your child to miss her or his nanny when she moves on to a new job or a new life, knowing that gap may stay there for ever? Wouldn't you like your baby to know that no matter where or when, you are the one who will always be there, the first

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