Your thesis is well conceived and presented here. I myself was raised in the way you discuss, and also immersed in wilderness, where the fecundity and verdance of life remained in full vigor. As a result of my dissatisfaction with the 'normal' impact of technological advance and prosperity on families, when I began my own family I did things differently. I was unwilling to put my infant sons in cribs, where their need to be nurtured at all times, which infants are unable to do without, is unmet, causing them distress. Further, because they require frequent attention at all hours, when they were in another room they were required to be distressed enough to raise a ruckus that alerted us. Then we had to arise and go to their aid. None of this was necessary when they slept in our bed with us. When they needed succor, it was directly at hand. We didn't need to get up, get dressed, and get busy when they only needed to roll over and nurse.

I think this was not only good for my kids, it was good for their parents, who spent a lot less time losing sleep and cranky.

Neither did I sentence my kids to day prison with all the other kids. While there was some social deprivation due to them being homeschooled on a compound innawoods, I did make nominal efforts to ensure their social circle was not inadequate, and in fact my kids were very involved in extracurricular groups and clubs outside of the formal incarceration known as public school. Indeed, after my divorce and becoming their sole legal parent, I had to bring them to work with me as a single, working father unwilling to let others raise my kids. I taught them how to do math by putting tape measures in their hands which caused them to need to understand how to simplify, add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions in the imperial system (which was much better for the purpose than the metric system, because the metric system is too easy).

Today they remain better men than I, and I hope my sincere efforts to ensure their natural needs and abilities were met and encouraged has enabled them to flourish and lead the best lives possible to them in the world we are in. Despite being homeschooled and autodidacts, they are successful professionals, much admired by their peers today. I can claim no part of their success, but can only hope I did not hold them back while raising them.

Thanks!