"We act as though human nature were something to be afraid of; to constrain, modify or fight; to subdue and overcome. Somehow we have gotten away from believing that we evolved in a way that works. We believe that our nature has to be modified, opposed and controlled from the very beginning.

Our nature, like that of every other animal, works fine the way it is. But we do not trust human nature. We distrust it in infants, in children, and in ourselves.

I saw a beautiful example in the Yequana village of Wanania. I witnessed a man named Tududu inventing the playpen...Then he took his son, Cananasiniawana, who was about one year old, who had just started to walk the week before, and plunked him into it. The child just looked around and saw that he was trapped and let out a huge scream of protest. He was horrified. He screamed and his father didn't for one minute justify or rationalize: "What does he know? He's only one year old. He'll be safer this way," and blah, blah. His father heard the child's screams of horror and realized instantly that he had made a mistake. Then and there he broke the thing up and threw it away. This is the trust I'm speaking of - the difference between us and them.

These Stone Age mothers and fathers know the voice of nature when they hear it. And they respond to it. Nobody in that village would have done any different. They respect the voice of nature. A baby doesn't have any other voice."

("Allowing Human Nature To Work Successfully" Interview with Jean Liedloff, author of "The Continuum Concept".
http://www.continuum-concept.org)