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Cry it out is bad advice? A relative of mine is a psychologist phd and she does it with her baby for sleep training saying self-soothing is fine.
by kelipso 1y ago
Cry it out is bad advice? A relative of mine is a psychologist phd and she does it with her baby for sleep training saying self-soothing is fine.
- droopyEyelids 1y agoIt's too big of a topic for a HN comment but do a google or LLM search and see. One widely-accepted aspect is that a child can not "self soothe" until 5-7 years. It's not developmentally possible, and using that language is a bit of a PR move to gloss over what is actually happening. https://www.google.com/search?q=infant+co-regulation+vs+self-soothing+development https://www.google.com/search?q=infant+co-regulation+vs+self... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_self-regulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation_(communication) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-regulation_(communication) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory
- foxglacier 1y agoYou should ask what she's basing that idea on. Maybe there's some research she knows about but the general world of public health doesn't? Seems more likely that she just doesn't know.
- ycombinete 1y agoSimilarly, my own position is that the person suggesting I ignore my baby's crying is the one who needs to do the explaining.