Beach Babies
Here's an interesting article combining a few of my interests: adventure travel, South Seas islands, parenting, and dealing with as few crappy diapers as possible.
It's written by a woman who raised two children on a black pearl farm on a tiny remote atoll in French Polynesia for five years. After attempting both disposable diapers and cloth diapers, and finding neither workable in a place with little fresh water and burning as the only method of trash removal, she turns to...you guessed it: letting the kids run around bare-bottomed, just like the native babies do.
Hey Angela...does this story remind you of anything? ;-)
(For readers who *aren't* Angela, she lives on St. Martin in the Caribbean, and had a similar experience with her beach babes, who potty-trained very early. That's her in the pic, with a bare-bottomed baby!)
Lots of other good escapist travel reading on that site, perfect for short winter days stuck in the house...
Comments
Sister! I just read that article and it's like reading a rougher version of my own experience. I love it. My kids never had tan lines OR diaper rash. Not to mention that little kids LOVE to go naked until they automatically get self-consious around 4 years old. They innately know when to start covering up...how interesting.
Posted by: Angela | January 11, 2006 11:25 AM