Used to being told you're creating "bad habits" by doing things like nurse your child to sleep or respond to their cries? If so, this post is for you - I won't tell you to change these behaviours, but rather to look at them as they are: biologically normal.
We all know to put a crying baby down and walk away if we are at risk of harming them. But what if we set things up that we reduced the risk of ever getting that frustrated? Here are 5 tips to do just that.
Is crying-it-out traumatic for a child? Yes. With this in mind, what does it mean for our promotion of it? Is it short-term pain for long-term gain or should we possibly think a little (okay, a lot) differently?
Here I want to lay out some critical distinctions between what it means to distract, redirect, or respond to a child, what it looks like, and whether or not each method works, according to research.
One of the biggest problems facing modern parenting is the idea that babies will cry for no reason. It undermines responsiveness, parental efficacy, and hurts the parent-child dyad. That, and it's a load of...
Recent research has identified "fake crying" in late infancy. What does this mean? How should parents respond? Here's a look at the research and what it means.
It saddens me that this needs to be written but it does. Too many media outlets and "baby experts" are out there telling parents to ignore their instincts and their babies.
Helping an infant return to sleep easily, then, is an essential gift to give our infants—as well as an important goal for parents who need to rest. The science of nighttime care provides a good foundation for parents trying to calm their babies. It clarifies what is important to know about calming babies and why certain types of calming are most likely to be helpful.
In this part, we’re going to look at the last piece of pertinent information—viewing the difficult infant as a ‘plastic’ infant—and then finishing with a look at what we can do going forward.
You’ve probably heard it a hundred times. Parents talking about their child and why parenting was so hard: He was just such a difficult baby. It’s supposed to explain the frazzled looks, the endless crying, and every other negative trait we attribute to the baby in question. But does it?
