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Originally Posted by Sliver
I don't think you have to be careful who you mention crying it out to as it's fairly accepted as standard parenting practice right now. The only objection I have to it is it really doesn't work for every kid, and I've bolded the parts in your post that can bother people that it doesn't work for. Much like breastfeeding doesn't work for everybody, crying it out doesn't work for everybody - it's not necessarily a matter of not having the mental fortitude to handle the difficulty. My daughter would cry so hard she'd start barfing when we did cry it out with her. With additional comfort and some deep-knee bends, we could get her to go to sleep. Cry it out worked like a charm for my son.
The difficult part with giving new parents parenting advice is nothing will work for your kid like it did for ours. View every tactical piece of advice you get as something you can try, but don't expect it to work for you like it did for me. Cry it out may work. Deep knee bends may work. Going to sleep with your wife's tit in their mouth may work. Who knows. Anyway you slice it it's hell, really.
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It's a personal decision I find. Cry it out is an accepted method just like a choke chain is an accepted method of dog training, but you're bound to run into people who get mad at you for it. Whether you tell people or not is totally up to you. I just got sick of people essentially calling me a shi**y parent to my face, so I stopped mentioning it.
My apologies if I implied that you didn't have what it takes for the cry it out method, that wasn't my intention. I see how that can come off as condescending.