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Do you have children?
by johndhi 4y ago
Do you have children?
- afandian 4y agoNot the commenter you replied to, but I am a parent. I see attachment as one of the most important aspects of human experience. Forcibly severing this is, in my opinion, emotional abuse.
- jjulius 4y ago>Forcibly severing this is, in my opinion, emotional abuse. When you think of parents letting their kid "cry it out", what do you picture? What is your understanding of the process? Edit: Seems the answer to my question is over here[1]. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34177882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34177882
- em-bee 4y agoi have been with friends who let their baby cry it out in the other room while the parents entertained guests. it did feel like emotional abuse.
- sweetheart 4y agoWell said. My wife is a therapist who works extensively with children and she would absolutely agree with you. Letting a child cry it out has profound effects of development, in ways that may be invisible or hard to notice for many years. Someone else in this thread mentioned The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog, which is a great book on the subject.
- zajio1am 4y agoFrom the article: "Hiscock's study, for example, the largest and longest longitudinal study done on sleep training, found sleep-trained children were no more likely to be insecurely attached to their caregiver at six years of age than their peers."