We at New Native Inc. believe that a healthy world begins with peaceful, Healthy parenting. We believe that contact carrying is helping to promote this. Friends of Bonding is a group of people who, through their own experiences or observations, understand the value of increased parent-child bonding.

We see the New Native Baby Carrier as an especially effective tool that promotes this bonding through contact carrying. Friends of Bonding encourages all forms of loving contact between parent and child, including traditional arm carrying and the use of similar sling-type carriers. Members of the Friends of Bonding community contribute time, effort or money to help parents who are less fortunate and may not be able to afford a carrier.

Join Friends of Bonding and Give the Gift Of Contact Carrying to your Community. Download our Friends of Bonding donation PDF form here.

The New Native Baby Carrier and the gift of Contact Carrying

Contact carrying increases:			Contact carrying decreases:
Intuition	Connectedness		Conflict	Feelings of Isolation
Honesty	Loving Behaviors		Illness	Crying and Acting Out
Self-esteem	Development		Child Abuse	Unwanted Teen Pregnancies
Happiness	Health		Crime	Colic
Communities

The New Native Baby Carrier is specifically designed to promote contact-carrying. Our carrier is easy to wear and holds your baby securely so that you can accomplish your day-to-day activities and stay in close contact with your child. This contact develops a unique bond between the parent and the child that is invaluable for both of you.

Parents who practice contact carrying are more perceptive of their children's needs and learn to demonstrate more loving behaviors toward their children and other family members. Parents who contact-carry are also less likely to be abusive to their children.

Babies who are contact-carried as infants and toddlers feel safe and cared for. Contact-carried developing children cry less, have a solid sense of self-esteem and grow up to be happy and independent adults. When babies are in the carrier, their needs are understood and met right away. Later, these children will know how to ask for help when they need it.

Babies who are contact-carried are more involved in their parents' lives and will tend to be more involved in their own lives and less isolated as adults. Contact carrying also establishes an early and healthy pattern of physical intimacy and touching. Parents who were not touched often as children gently learn to open up and touch. When children are contact-carried they receive and respond to touching in healthy ways and are less likely to have sexual problems beginning in puberty or suffer unwanted pregnancies.

Abnormal and criminal behavior is usually the result of family love that is not well expressed. As loving parents, it is our responsibility to show children our love, and lots of it. Love must be both felt and actively demonstrated; contact-carry, breast-feed, hug, kiss, massage, play and laugh with your child. The more you demonstrate how much you value your child, the more your child will learn to value herself or himself, and others. Being in touch with your baby brings tremendous rewards to you, your baby, and ultimately to your community.

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