The indoctrination starts at birth – it’s ever so slight and you don’t even realise that the conditioning has started. The “suggestions” come from the thoughts inside your head (which originate from your parents) or in the form of advice from other people in a power position:
- No, your baby can’t stay on your belly and crawl up to your breast to initiate suckling – we have to dry it and weigh it, measure it & inject it (read here for how important uninterrupted mother/baby time is immediately after birth),
- No, don’t pick the baby up when it cries – it needs to learn to soothe itself,
- No, don’t let the baby sleep in bed with you – you need time to yourself and the baby needs to learn to be independent,
- No, don’t breastfeed the baby to sleep, you’ll make a rod for you back,
and when the child starts to walk & talk:
