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About Alternatives to Mainstream Parenting

This group (AMP) exists to offer alternative, more loving, and child-centered parenting options, especially for new moms, in a safe environment where you will be supported in your journey to find ways to parent that respects your child. (your child's body, emotions, intellect and spirit).

You need not be super passionate about a parenting style in order to join, just be genuinely interested in doing what is best for your child and being really supported in making the decisions that YOU feel are best. Not your mil, not cafemom user "xuserx". You.

You will receive nonstandard advice, with real evidence to back it up, rather than just be told "let him cry, crying never hurt anyone!" No one will ever tell you to circumcise, in fact, they will help support your desires to leave your son's body intact. Feel free to share, ask questions, and give experiential advice.

It doesn't matter how mainstream or alternative you are, just that you are trying to follow your heart and live authentically to what feels right for your value system. If your looking for alternative ways, we'll help you, if you have some mainstream ways, we wont bash you. We are a gentle and respectful group of mama's doing the best we can and we honor that is true of you too! This is a group is to support your quest to be a more loving with your family, with your children, with your self and with each other. The areas of our lives that are mainstream that we are comfortable with will not be of focus in this group. Even if we are comfortable with a certain mainstream way, if another mother wants to do differently, we accept that this particular mainstream way doesn't fit her heart, and that she believes there must be a better way, and so we will be open to that truth of hers and support her in her quest. Of course, you can be totally alternative and we'd be on your side, too! After all, this group is about helping the more isolated alternative ways o

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You can always find this group with the following URL:
http://www.cafemom.com/group/alternatives