Happy independnce day, India!

And in other news of my world, I'm currently exploring all the lovely parenting books and ideas out there. Attachment Parenting is definitely what we're going to try to do with our upcoming baby. I've been reading about a lot of those theories for years. Breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing, etc. But while reading the Mothering website, (It's currently my homepage and I cannot tell you how excited I am to get my first magazine in the mail. woot woot.) I stumbled across this thing called Unconditional Parenting. A parenting style devised(?) by Alfie Kohn and explained in his book by the same name. No time-outs. No gold stars and candy. No taking away priveledges for bad behavior. No saying, "Good Job." No punishments or rewards of any kind. Just unconditional love. At first, it sounds harsh and really weird. But I've read more of his articles on education and parenting and stuff on how bad competition is for people. Everything I've read makes complete and utter sense. So, Nilesh's homework assignment today is to get the book from the library. Hopefully it will actually be on the shelf and I won't have to wait 2 weeks for it to be put on hold and sent and whatever has been taking the last book I wanted to get to me. Anyway. in the meantime, I've found a message board on the topic, and I'm sure I'll find other sources of information because hey... the internet is huge and fabulous.