![]() According to the Continuum Concept, this kind of constant physical-ness provides the security that is essential to development into healthy adulthood. Liedloff endorses this physical closeness (which is often strangely accompanied by emotional aloofness) and contrasts it with what is common in the modern west, that of physical distance (off to school, day care, babysitters, while parents work, etc) which is often accompanied by emotional overbearing (ie helicopter parents). They are always physically with someone, slung onto adults even while they work. That is, infants of the Yequana are never left alone. ![]() Most notably, she advocates for their continuous “in arms” phase. Jean Liedloff spent time with the indigenous Yequana people of the Venezuelan Amazon, where she took note of how differently they reared their children. ![]()
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