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Hey Alison, How true it is

I am beginning to realize that our intuition is challenged as new parents more by our own choices: dads included. You didn't say how old you child is now, but I suspect that you have had many more empowering opportunities to parent without fear since then. While I will not go into the detail as it is more painful for me to describe than you might believe. The mystery of physical touch has been solved. Our children are recorded to feel touch before we know we are even pregnant. So by the time of a newborn's male surgery I assure you they feel it intensely. A friend of mine gave birth in the olden days (she is a senior citizen) and for whatever reason they did not remove her from the room. I cringe every time she even describes the scene of what she saw happening before her eyes. Our greatest challenge in America is the re-awakening of our own instincts and fearlessness. It was Hitler who said it best.

"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise... Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future... How fortunate for leaders that men do not think..."

You should study him sometimes with one eye on comparing his teachings with the outcomes we are getting in pediatric education and healthcare, and like me you'll be able to unearth the mindset of the contractors we hire as parents in America. It will make you fearless or nothing ever will! Thanks so much for sharing with me.

There's a fearless parent in all us.
Seen yours lately?

Adelaide Zindler, FP (Fearless Parent)
www.FearlessParenting.com

April 12, 2008 - 2:48pm

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