Thank you so much for all of your words of encouragement. Sometimes I feel like such a hypocrite, because I try so hard to model AP (especially in front of friends and family who don't get it or just dont agree) but I do get frustrated sometimes.
Of course I just look at her and she smiles, or pulls my glasses off (Oh the horrors!) and I fall in love with her all over again!
I have found that my best defense is to read read read about AP, about the way babies learn, about what I can REALISTICALLY expect her to learn. And of course come to sites like this one and connect with other gentle mommies! Thank God that He got a hold of me before she was born. (Literally 3 weeks before I had Abby I thought maybe I should order a Moby wrap, and while online I stumbled across some AP sites, which spiraled into a complete turn around!
) Thank you all again!
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INFJ/INTJ DYT 4 Wife to Alan, Mama to Abby 3/05, Ella 2/08, and Julianna 10/10
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
Leo Buscaglia