As I was debating about what I would make my "first post", a conversation came up between my daughter and myself. This conversation was actually more of an observation. My 15 year old has observed that we're so "different" from other people/families. She noticed that in other households, the parents are in their own world (tv, chores, work, etc) and the kids in theirs (tv, chores, work, etc) and they they often are in their own space as well with kids in one room and parents in another. This idea of "seperate worlds" between adults and kids seems so strange to her.
In our primal home, everything is a family affair. Whatever comes up, there are typically several of us involved. My children work for me in my natural cleaning service as well as with chores at home. I can truly say that I'm never alone. Neither are they. And our house is rarely empty and when it is, we're all out doing something together. The point is that, unless we're all asleep, we're always together. We're always communicating or interacting in one way or another. We're very close. We're not seperate. It's proof that we are attached (due to attachment parenting) rather than detached.
And that's a perfect "intro" to this blog. What is primal mothering about? It's about being connected. It's about relationships, instinctive parenting; love, communication and no one ever feeling like their in their own world separate from the others.
My daughter stated it best:
"You go to other people's homes and you'll find them sitting on opposite sides of
the room; or in completely different rooms at any given time. But in our house,
you may walk in and find 4 of us on one sofa, legs entwined or flopped over the
next person. It's just so odd that other people aren't close enough to be
comfortable with that."
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