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I'm reading a book on sleep training a baby that's ~20 years old, I think, and it's like 75% unnecessary. I attribute it to the fact that when it was out, there

I'm reading a book on sleep training a baby that's ~20 years old, I think, and it's like 75% unnecessary. I attribute it to the fact that when it was out, there were fewer books/other media competing for attention, plus it wasn't easy to go find additional information by Googling, so people attributed value to extra, borderline-useless info in books.

d3ad1ysp0rk 3y ago
"sleep training a baby that's ~20 years old" this book sounds hilarious
- vacuity 3y ago
  "Two pitbulls attack girl returning home from school" Wow, they grow up so fast!
nunez 3y ago
That still happens today. Gotta have enough filler to publish!
prawn 3y ago
The method we leaned on (with success) was a one-page PDF shared by another parent. So many books of this sort are a bullet-point list fleshed out to justify the sale price, and little else. Case studies and history and whatever else.