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 28, 2009
Photo credit: Lab2112 on flickr
This post provides tips for sleep deprived parents that want their babies to sleep better and, like me, do not want to use the cry it out approach. Some of these things I have learned through experience and others I’ve learned through reading research. I should note that I have [...]
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 December 28, 2008
I should preface this by saying that I own and have read many of Elizabeth Pantley’s other No-Cry books. As many of my readers know, I am supportive of a no-cry approach, so when I was given the opportunity to read and review the No-Cry Nap Solution on my blog, it seemed like a natural [...]
by phdinparenting on November 17, 2008
I’m excited tonight to answer my first reader question. Christina from MamasWorldwide.com had this great question:
How do you deal with parents whose parenting styles are very different from your own? Is friendship out of the question between attachment style and cry-it-out style parents?
This is a really tough question and it is one that I have [...]
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 September 27, 2008
Once again this week, I was reminded that children will develop and grow at their own pace. Our son, who recently turned 4, decided three days ago that he would go to sleep by himself.
On a usual night in our house, I put our daughter to bed and my husband puts our son to bed, [...]
