Originally Posted by
Busyman
For instance (on a side note) when you let a child sleep with you at an early age, they will want to do it at a later age and can lose their minds when they have to sleep alone. Sometimes children seem to want to crawl back up in the womb.
There was a program on that just last week. It was about communal sleeping, a family bed.
one family had 5 children. They all started to sleep in the same bed from the start. But then as they got older (4+ years) the children decided to move to their own beds on their own accord.
The Psychologists shown in the show seemed to support this as the natural foundation of human upbringing and suggested that the way we do things in modern civilizations is counter to what would be, by nature, "instinct".
If we still lived in caves or we didn't have houses with separate rooms (as used to be the case for all but the very wealthy) we would all be sleeping together.
At the beginning of the program I viewed the families as being a bit odd but I have to say they did put a very compelling case forward. They made a lot of sense even though I wouldn't do it myself if I got my time over again.
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