by phdinparenting on September 2, 2009
I do not think cry it out is an appropriate way to teach babies or children to sleep, whether it is a graduated method (like Ferber) or full-on let ‘em scream until they pass out extinction (like Weissbluth) or until they vomit and beyond (like Schafer), I’m not on board. There are some people who [...]
by phdinparenting on June 28, 2009
A lot of people objected to my last post for a lot of different reasons.I addressed a lot of them in the comments, but I wanted to rehash one of them, using some new, less offensive and perhaps more easily understood analogies this time.
A number of people said that if you have tried gentle methods [...]
by phdinparenting on June 26, 2009
Photo credit: “At the end of a very long day” by KitLKat on flickr
There was some banter the other day on twitter comparing sleep with sex. I’m not sure if it originated with or ended with Ann Douglas, but the conversation at some point came around to the intro to her book Sleep Solutions for [...]
by phdinparenting on February 25, 2009
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by phdinparenting on January 15, 2009
A few weeks ago Macall Gordon dropped by my blog and left a comment on my post about why we don’t use the cry it out method to get our children to go to sleep. Since then, I’ve been reading a lot of her work and found that it supports my assertion that there is [...]
by phdinparenting on October 24, 2008
Around the world there are parents wishing their babies would sleep better. Some so exhausted, so frustrated, so at the end of their rope that they go searching on the Internet desperately trying to find the magic bullet that will make their baby sleep through the night.
In certain Western societies it has somehow become acceptable [...]
by phdinparenting on August 11, 2008
About a month ago, I wrote a post outlining the scientific and emotional reasons why we have chosen not to use the Cry It Out (CIO) method with our children. In brief, the ten reasons are:
CIO can cause harmful changes to babies’ brains
CIO can result in decreased intellectual, emotional and social development
CIO can result in a [...]
by phdinparenting on July 5, 2008
Intuitively and instinctively, the cry it out (CIO) method (also known as sleep training or ferberizing or controlled crying) of getting a baby to sleep is not something I ever felt comfortable with. And as I did research on infant sleep, I learned about what normal infant sleep is and I also learned more about the [...]
by phdinparenting on June 18, 2008
When I wrote recently about germs versus chemicals, I raised the concept of short-term parenting versus long-term parenting and mentioned that I wanted to write more about it later. Let me start by explaining the concept. To me, short-term parenting means that the parenting choices you make are designed to have an immediate outcome that [...]
by phdinparenting on June 4, 2008
Since so many people ask this question, I figured I might as well answer it on my blog.
The answer: I don’t know.
Before you jump to the conclusion that I am one of those baby trainers and I have simply turned off the baby monitor so that I don’t have to listen to my baby’s cries, [...]
