![]() ![]() Liedloff died on Main Sausalito, California. She was a founding member of The Ecologist magazine. ![]() Her book is based on her experiences while living with the Yequana, and discusses in particular their style of child-rearing and its fundamental effect on their later lives. She wrote her book The Continuum Concept to describe her new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being, and to show us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves. Over time she became fascinated with the Yequana, and made a decision to return to Venezuela to live with them. Parents had forgotten how powerful they are to. Liedloff felt that we had lost our trust in our children and ultimately ourselves. They can be seen everywhere in the animal kingdom, as well as in almost every primitive culture. She is the aunt of writer Janet Hobhouse, and is represented by the character Constance in Hobhouse's book "The Furies."īorn in New York City in 1926, as a teenager she attended the Drew Seminary for Young Women and began studying at Cornell University, but began her expeditions before she could graduate.ĭuring a diamond-hunting expedition to Venezuela, she came into contact with an indigenous people named the Yequana. The Continuum Concept is essentially a set of child raising protocols which our bodies are genetically wired to follow. Jean Liedloff was an American author, born in New York, and best known for her 1975 book The Continuum Concept. ![]()
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