Ravenscroft
Banned
...& there's a rather huge difference between "manipulation" & the sort of cause-&-effect that single-celled organisms manage to figure out.
In fact, abusing the word "manipulation" is manipulative, but let's set that aside as obvious to that same single-celled organism.
Once again, anything other than full-contact love-bombing is quickly presented as The Evil Bogeyman, equated to locking the kid in a box & feeding it through a hole.
Looks like there's consensus forming: having given birth, a mother should set aside ALL other close relationships, in order that the child will have Mommy's undivided attention with no messy distractions. Time out for contact with anyone else -- primary partner (let alone any nonsense like dating), friends, older children -- should be left completely out of the picture for... well, what do you say, six months? a year? five years? maybe twelve?
And of course you gotta unplug the TV, get rid of the Internet, & lay off Facebook & Twitter... unless someone can make the case that those distractions are somehow better for Baby.
Or has some sort of middle ground finally appeared in this conversation?
In fact, abusing the word "manipulation" is manipulative, but let's set that aside as obvious to that same single-celled organism.
Once again, anything other than full-contact love-bombing is quickly presented as The Evil Bogeyman, equated to locking the kid in a box & feeding it through a hole.
Looks like there's consensus forming: having given birth, a mother should set aside ALL other close relationships, in order that the child will have Mommy's undivided attention with no messy distractions. Time out for contact with anyone else -- primary partner (let alone any nonsense like dating), friends, older children -- should be left completely out of the picture for... well, what do you say, six months? a year? five years? maybe twelve?
And of course you gotta unplug the TV, get rid of the Internet, & lay off Facebook & Twitter... unless someone can make the case that those distractions are somehow better for Baby.
Or has some sort of middle ground finally appeared in this conversation?