Has anyone heard of this???

[bright sparks]

Just as an idea of toys/playtime that would fall into this parenting style, look up treasure baskets. They are all household objects that are used for play and discovery. Typically aimed at children as soon as they are able to manipulate the items. Also no adult interaction is "allowed" only observation. Children are to play with the baskets and content as they choose.

I do these on a regular basis and have a number of them set up in my basement ready for rainy days and themes.

[Lee-Bee]

I haven't heard of this before. I do find, having just read up on it that a lot of it makes sense. Some of it we already do in daycare settings (child size furniture, sitting in chairs not high chairs, eating without throwing everything on the floor etc. BUT, like most everything as a whole it just can't be easily done in a group setting. BUT, a lot of it can in a slightly modified way.

When I took my ECE exersaucers were referred to as "the circle of neglect" which is essentially what they are...a place we toss a young child when we can't pay any attention to them. Are they evil, no. Are they developmentally needed, no. But, when you are one adult with many children sometimes you just need to put a child somewhere safe so you can tend to other things...so they do serve a great purpose (same for playpen, highchair etc). Not ideal for long periods of time but essentially for making it through our day.

Interesting parenting style but like ANY parenting styles parents that will need daycare later on need to realize that daycare runs differently and they have to prepare their children for those changes, BEFORE those changes take place.