A little suggestion...

Lanie2883

I understand that not everyone have the same views, but I really suggest that you try reading Ferber's book before either trying CIO or bashing it. It's really interesting and much more complex than it looks.

nperez489

they should read this to https://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/babycries.html

BelleIsa

LovelyABR:

they should read this to https://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/babycries.html

Oh please.  

Many child-care professionals feel that parental encouragement of self-satisfiers and over-substitution of material objects - teddy bears substituting for parents, strollers for arms, cribs for shared sleep, pacifiers for nursing, toys for parents' attention, music boxes for voices, formula for breast-milk, wind-up swings for laps - have led to an age of materialistic acquisition, personal loneliness and lack of emotional fulfillment.

Seriously?  LOL You can not take that article seriously.

IrishBrideND

Lanie2883:

I understand that not everyone have the same views, but I really suggest that you try reading Ferber's book before either trying CIO or bashing it. It's really interesting and much more complex than it looks.

I've read it. I still don't like it personally. I don't think he's horrible, but its not my parenting style.

amygauntt@windstream.net

No thanks. There are a couple moms on 24+ that actually met with Dr Ferber, and the things he suggested were outrageous. He's a wackadoo.

ASmallWonder

BelleIsa:

LovelyABR:

they should read this to https://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/babycries.html

Oh please.  

Many child-care professionals feel that parental encouragement of self-satisfiers and over-substitution of material objects - teddy bears substituting for parents, strollers for arms, cribs for shared sleep, pacifiers for nursing, toys for parents' attention, music boxes for voices, formula for breast-milk, wind-up swings for laps - have led to an age of materialistic acquisition, personal loneliness and lack of emotional fulfillment.

Seriously?  LOL You can not take that article seriously.

I didn't read the article but based on this quote, I'm all set. 

mtbmama

elmoali:

BelleIsa:

LovelyABR:

they should read this to https://www.naturalchild.org/jan_hunt/babycries.html

Oh please.  

Many child-care professionals feel that parental encouragement of self-satisfiers and over-substitution of material objects - teddy bears substituting for parents, strollers for arms, cribs for shared sleep, pacifiers for nursing, toys for parents' attention, music boxes for voices, formula for breast-milk, wind-up swings for laps - have led to an age of materialistic acquisition, personal loneliness and lack of emotional fulfillment.

Seriously?  LOL You can not take that article seriously.

I didn't read the article but based on this quote, I'm all set. 

If you're bored today and want some entertainment, its worth the read!

loveyoubean

Oh my... based on the exceprt alone I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.  That is just plain stupid, sorry.

purplecrayon

loveyoubean:

Oh my... based on the exceprt alone I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.  That is just plain stupid, sorry.

The excerpt is from an anti-CIO article, not the Ferber method.

robinsokj

Based on the logic from the anti CIO article, women with multiples would need to become octopuses (is that even a word?). 

MelonieK

robinsokj:

Based on the logic from the anti CIO article, women with multiples would need to become octopuses (is that even a word?). 

I'm so desperate to avoid work this morning that I googled it.  The answer is yes, and it's correct, along with octopi and octopodes.

I read that article.  Some people frighten me.

IrishBrideND

I really now want to try to slip "octopodes" into a real life conversation.