Colonialism has mastered the crime of stealing our children for generations and then punishing and criticizing our parents and grandparents for how they originally raised children.
Then, they went ahead and stole, renamed & rebranded our sacred original parenting instructions as “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting.
It has been used as a tool of profit.
It has been used as a means of stealing babies from families, then forcing the mothers and fathers of those babies to take colonial based parenting courses in order to get their babies back. And those colonial based parenting courses are heavily twisted and skewed versions of our parenting instructions - but twisted and skewed so severely, so deeply, that they only accommodate and feed colonial agendas and systems.
It is a matter of indigenous parents today abiding to colonially twisted, and colonially backwards parenting “styles” in order to fit the criteria of being a “good parent.”
Here’s the thing though.
Residential schools, the 60’s scoop, the child welfare system, and every other colonial policy embedded in the colonial fabric of society was created to do just this.
Keep the children out of our families to continue the ongoing attempts of assimilation and genocide against our peoples.
Even today.
So rather than pushing for “attachment” parenting, “conscious” parenting, “gentle” parenting, “positive” parenting, and “child led” parenting let us open into, revitalize, maintain and relearn the original instructions of raising and nurturing children.
Let us heal and dissolve what generations of colonialism has embedded into our parenting styles.
May we do our best to continue that.
So we can continue to raise children in the ways that we were originally meant to….
For generations to come.
Because this is the least we can do for the children in our lives today.
@aby if you’ll have a hard time using your arm the first day, make sure you can do stuff like using your phone or reading a book with the other hand :).
You probably already though about getting noise cancellation headphones if you have them, make sure they are charged, same for your phone, and probably bring a charger for each device.
If you can go with someone to help with setup, or be ready to visit if you need something, that can be really helpful.
In today's episode of Watching the Eclipse Watchers, some Opinions about science:
the eclipse is fake news, because I saw a video of it were it glitches and everything moved to the left (obviously the camera was moved to get a better angle, nobody moved the astral bodies)
you know they lie to us about all this because you can see the sun and moon are the same size
"somebody explain to me how the moon, which is transparent/translucent during the day, blocks the sun out I'll wait 😂"
discussion over how this is an event in a spiritual war, because of shadow bands*
Pro Tip: Organizing spaces should be intergenerational. There should be children and elders around. Nothing good comes from a bunch of 20 - 40 year old's sitting in a room thinking they know everything. Don't operate in an echo-chamber.
@thepoliticalcat - I mean the post isn't about you hanging out with kids. The post is about not excluding people from organising spaces because of their age.
The idea that youth are inherently dangerous to older folks is harmful. Any of the things you describe can be an issue with being around anyone of any age.