This is great. My husband and I have been bringing up our daughter according to Aletha Solter's Aware Baby theory, which is really in keeping with this Empathic Parenting. I read "The Aware Baby" long before being pregnant and immediately saw how this could make a huge difference. This theory, based on the fact that the baby understands much more than we think and need to express his emotions unhindered, has even helped me in my Health Kinesiology practice. In her book she talks how a child who would be brought up without being able to express his emotions (because his parents divert his attention, give him a pacifier, etc. when he tries to cry), quickly learns to put a "lid on it" and becomes - at best - passive.
This was an eye-opener: most people today are passive and feel helpless when they are in contact with events, injustice, etc. The way they have been brought up have got to be a cause of this. After all, if, from childhood, everybody makes you understands that there is nothing you can feel, nothing you can do, how are you gonna get free from such patterns? Especially when you consider the question of ligands (see "Secret History of the world" and "Molecules of Emotion" by Candace Pert).
Because passivity is the best that can actually happen to these children. A percentage of them will actually become agressive after a while, some will be depressed, others will be completely unable to express emotions and empathy. And when you see that most children are brought up that way, you begin to get an idea of the ulterior agenda behind this non-attachment education. They want everyone to behave like psychopaths.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Belgium and in France (I'm part Belgian, part French), attachment parenting (like advocated by William Sears, see this website http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/t130300.asp) is kinda ridiculed. "Staying home to raise your child, that's so 50's!!! Wearing your baby in a sling, how bohemian!" Even if mentalities are changing, most people think that it is OK to let your child cry himself to sleep every night, to leave him for a week to his grandparents to go on holiday when he's 3 months old, or to let him with strangers all day. I know people often don't have a choice, and it is my belief that it is made on purpose.
I really do believe that non-attachment education has been introduced in order to slowly raise children with difficulty to feel and act, because it is so much easier that way to control them later.
