Tuesday
Aug192008
Wordless Wednesday: A disturbing trend
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 
search volumes: cry it out (blue) vs. attachment parenting (red)Tuesday, August 19, 2008 search volumes: cry it out (blue) vs. attachment parenting (red)
Reader Comments (12)
That's really too bad. Breaks my heart.
Does anyone explain why?
Dang. I wonder what that's all about.
*gasps* but i'm all for attachment parenting, too! well, attachment parenting may just be too much work for some. and it really is. that trend is just so sad. :(
http://cafemunchkin.com/2008/08/20/ww-23-red-velvet-cupcakes/" rel="nofollow">Red Velvet Cupcakes
http://photos.cafemunchkin.com/2008/08/20/ww-23-tickled-pink/" rel="nofollow">Tickled Pink
In case anyone is wondering, this is from Google Insights. You can compare different search terms to see the relative search volume over time. The link is: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
I worry because I do see an increase in the popularity of "cry it out". I can't explain the decrease in search of attachment parenting, except to say that maybe it is more well known now and so people are less likely to go and search on it to find out what it is all about.
Not sure....shrug....
What I would really like to see is a graph that looks at whether there is any correlation between the rise in popularity of CIO and depression rates among children, teens and adults that were left to CIO.
wow. that is disturbing.
I've noticed on a number of email lists I'm on that there are a number of books out recently that advocate this sort of thing...I think that's a huge part of it. People just don't know--they listen to the "experts" that give them easy fixes to make their babies fall into deep sleeps and sleep through the night (at great cost to their trust and brain development--but the parents don't know that). I wish there was an attachment-parenting-based media outlet to expose people to AP ideas more directly...
This is so sad and such a sign of the times. We need to get more people talking about AP and how wonderful it is. Just imagine our world if everyone was an Attachment Parent.
I was thinking about this more (and just read an article on the rise in popularity of sleep nannies) and realized that another major part of the picture is the increasing push NOT to cosleep (claiming that it's inherently dangerous, etc.). Parents resort to sleep training because they can't function when they have to physically get out of bed time after time to tend to their babies--at some point, many of them just give up and decide that sleep is worth letting the baby cry. If we could get out education on the true data on cosleeping (and that it's very healthy for kids), I think the sleep training would go way down, too.
Carla - I completely agree! That is why I wrote this when the Ontario Coroner came out against co-sleeping:
http://phdinparenting.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/faulty-logic-from-the-ontario-coroner-regarding-bed-sharing/" rel="nofollow">Faulty logic from the Ontario coroner regarding bed sharing
This is fascinating! I'll be doing some searches of my own using this link too - thanks for that.
Is it possible people are searching for more information on the damaging effect of CIO rather than how to do it?
That's devastating.
I've "left" mainstream birthboards and chat rooms because the plethera of misinformation, starting with forcing induction to cry-it-out, seems to be overtaking the correct, natural, and healthy advice of moms like myself - we are outcast because we don't do it the way WTEWYE says is the way to do it.
Someone tell us how to change these trends and get back to parenting our babies, instead of treating them like inconveniences that must be molded to fit into our lifestyles, at any cost.