Jag tror autonoma barn är de självständiga barn som vägrar gå med på våra västerlänska onaturliga sätt att vara med barnen. När jag ägnar all min tid (hemma eller på öppna förskolan) åt min 10-månaders blir hon ganska krävande, men om jag tar henne på ryggen och går och jobbar ,och gör vuxensaker, och bara låter henne vara med så blir hon helt mjuk i kroppen och inte alls gnällig, utan bara hänger där och observerar.
According to Jean Liedloff, the continuum concept is the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings — especially babies — require the kind of experience to which our species adapted during the long process of our evolution. For an infant, these include such experiences as...
constant physical contact with his mother (or another familiar caregiver as needed) from birth; sleeping in his parents' bed, in constant physical contact, until he leaves of his own volition (often about two years); breastfeeding "on cue" — nursing in response to his own body's signals; being constantly carried in arms or otherwise in contact with someone, usually his mother, and allowed to observe (or nurse, or sleep) while the person carrying him goes about his or her business — until the infant begins creeping, then crawling on his own impulse, usually at six to eight months; having caregivers immediately respond to his signals (squirming, crying, etc.), without judgment, displeasure, or invalidation of his needs, yet showing no undue concern nor making him the constant center of attention; sensing (and fulfilling) his elders' expectations that he is innately social and cooperative and has strong self-preservation instincts, and that he is welcome and worthy.
www.continuum-concept.org/cc_defined.html
