I can't watch the vids, but I can give you an insight into the big balls.
My friend is an ante-natal teacher. Her house and/or car is filled with plastic pelvises and big balls.
They're birthing balls. If you sit on them it not only relieves pressure pain, but you can gently rotate your hips to ease the birth process. It can help rotate the baby into the right position.
I agree with all you say, KN, except when I think of the people I come into contact with who appear to have little self-, or other-awareness. The ability to reflect on the issues you mentioned would be one of those resources I listed above which not all people have. I suspect it's that many people simply don't know how.
I agree the primary responsibility of raising a child is, and should be, with the parents, or guardians, but I'm not adverse to other tools which might help, rather than hinder.
For the time our children are in school, I believe the staff are in loco parentis. I sometimes found myself dismayed at the culture of school and what was being taught.
Personally, I'd like to see emotional development being tended to with as much focus as academic. It's an environment with a lot of interpersonal interaction and learning is best served by immediate, rather than delayed knowledge of results. It's an environment where the journey towards self-actualisation is ripe for the picking, and yet the fruit is largely left to rot. How can we expect maturity from young people under those circumstances?
How can we expect all parents to reflect upon their interpersonal relationships if they have no experience, or knowledge of that?
Yeah, raising my granddaughter has been a different experience to raising my daughter, John.
I get what a difficult path it is when you get to do all the work of parenting with none of the decision making rights.
I'm now making the first tentative steps towards a relationship with my two step-grandsons whilst awaiting the arrival of my biological grandson to whom I will be a grandparent, rather than a co-parent.
All these relationships are different, but I have experience from all of them - different experience.
It's certainly enriched my experience being in the dad role and I can empathise a lot more with men's experience of parenting as a result.
I can also have opinions about raising children from a number of different perspectives, all of which, I feel, have validity.
I don't see why there has to be a hierarchy of who has the most right to an opinion, or pose a hypothesis about raising children according to some social rank. Parenting is hard a lot of the time, in whatever capacity you parent.
Being a child, or adolescent can be hard work, too.
As I see it, Greg is proposing an idea which could make life easier and more satisfactory all round. The discussion surely should be about whether that proposition has merit and how it might be implemented, not whether he has the correct experience to make that proposal, or have an opinion about it.
Chambella, just because someone doesn't have a biological child of their own, doesn't mean they have no experience in raising children.
As I understand it, there's a reference to raising children with a partner in Greg's profile.
There are also other ways of being involved with the care of children and young people, for example, raising siblings, fostering, teaching, or being a youth worker.
Anybody is entitled to an opinion, even if their experience is simply observing young people's behaviour in public. If you think having an opinion regarding changing social norms is creepy, you're looking at the wrong signals.
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I can't watch the vids, but I can give you an insight into the big balls.My friend is an ante-natal teacher. Her house and/or car is filled with plastic pelvises and big balls.
They're birthing balls. If you sit on them it not only relieves pressure pain, but you can gently rotate your hips to ease the birth process. It can help rotate the baby into the right position.