Children in scarves cause emotions

1 03. 07. 2022
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Nursing children less cry and physically benefit. Psychologists recommend wearing. Still, they only wear a minority of parents, and are often condemned by the environment. Why? The question is also interesting from the point of view of the fact that the strollers have dominated the scene only recently. A thousand times longer in our history included the baby in a scarf.

It suits you, it evaluates an elderly gentleman and slips his eyes from me to the baby and back again.

Ten minutes later, at the bus stop, I hear the older woman angrily yell: "The baby has no booties!". "Oh, that's beautiful, look!" One teenager yells in the subway, and at the store he checks the cashier: "It's too bad for a baby - too bad!"

These are the reactions I have encountered as a mother carrying her baby in a scarf.

They show that wearing babies is an unusual and stirring emotion.

Delay when it comes

Historically, it is clear that wearing children is human nature. Our ancestors living in a hunter-gatherer way of life could not bear their children. Otherwise, in a savanna or a forest the delayed infant would not last for long.

Due to the length of our hunter-gatherer past, we can talk about tens of thousands of worn generations.

At the same time, however, there has always been a tendency to child deprivation - for a mother, a simple child is sometimes postponed. So when the situation allowed (mother did not move from place to place, it was quite warm and it was safe), the children were put off: in different nets, cradles, hanging cradles and on the ground. Especially after the agricultural revolution, which brought more work and a more sedentary way of life, the children spent less time in physical contact with their mother.

Industrial Revolution in 19. century brought to the care of children a new invention - a stroller (not that people could not construct something like this before, but somewhat lacked sidewalks that the strollers could ride). Firstly, it was a matter for the upper strata, but soon the prams became available practically to everybody and completely controlled the scene of the transfer of infants.

The speed at which the strollers expanded literally took breath. It was as if the pavements were waiting. Within two generations, the children moved to the strollers as if nothing more natural.

The British Queen Victoria (who ruled 1837-1901) was of great importance for the popularization of the stroller. The stroller fits not only into the technological progress at that time, but also to the social climate - the Victorian age is known for some prudence and detachment in close relationships. Parents were confined to physical contact with children, afraid to spoil them.

Forgotten tradition goes surprisingly fast

The stroller's history is therefore a novelty in terms of the length of the period after which the children were worn. Even our grandparents wore their children. But how do you know how they did it?

Few people know today at all.

It was a square of stiffer fabric, about 1,5 x 1,5 meter, from each corner strap. It was called elbows or even a ladybug (used to wear grass or hay). Mother, the baby in her elbow, like a cradle, swung over her back and went to the field. Forget tradition, however, surprisingly fast. Not only with us. Rosima Wiparata is 54 Summer Maorka. She is proud of her country, her ancestors and New Zealand, her country. And likewise to their children. I am interested in the tradition of wearing children. "My mother still wore me. Traditionally on the back, how it was done. My ancestors traveled a lot, they needed to be mobile and fast. And so the children wore their backs from birth. "But as the children on their backs were bound and the scarf - the stretcher said they did not know. He still remembers that he had to move forward to breastfeed. It seems, however, that a break of two generations is enough - and we do not know at once.


Author: Pavla Koucká

Source: Portal.cz

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