Posted on 11/24/2022 8:21:48 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Researchers examined parental methods to help toddlers sleep across 14 cultures and found that these methods are related to the development of a child's temperament.
Pham studied the effect of different parental sleep-supporting techniques on child temperament across 14 cultures. They hypothesized that passive ways of helping a child fall asleep (e.g., cuddling, singing, and reading), but not active methods (e.g., walking, car rides, and playing), would be positively related to a child's temperament.
Child temperament is defined as the way children regulate their behavior and handle their emotions. Researchers define temperament by three overarching factors:
Surgency (SUR), which reflects positive affect such as smiling and laughter, approach tendencies, activity, and enthusiasm.
Negative Emotionality (NE), which captures overall distress proneness, including in situations eliciting fear, anger, sadness, and discomfort.
Effortful Control (EC), involving attention-based regulatory skills and enjoyment of calm activities.
Each of the factors independently contributes to predicting behavioral, achievement, and interpersonal outcomes, such as behavior problems, social competence, and academic performance.
"Our study shows that a parent's sleep-supporting techniques are substantially associated with their child's temperament," said Pham. "For example, countries with greater reliance on passive strategies had toddlers with higher sociability scores (higher SUR)."
On the other hand, fussy or difficult temperament (higher NE) was significantly correlated with active sleep techniques.
Overall, passive sleep-supporting techniques were associated with lower NE and higher SUR at the culture level and higher EC at the individual level. Active sleep-supporting techniques were associated with higher NE at an individual level only.
Rank-ordering the extent to which a culture's sample endorsed using passive techniques, the results show that the U.S., Finland, and Netherlands top the list. In contrast, rank-ordering for active techniques, the researchers find that Romania, Spain, and Chile top the list.
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Maybe they protected against this ... but it seems to me that if you have a child who happens to be temperamental, you may start with passive techniques: read or sing the child to sleep. But they are temperamental. It doesn’t work. So, you need to try some else: take a walk, take them for a drive. Maybe that is more successful.
So, do active techniques create temperamental children, or do temperamental children require active techniques?
Mine slept through the night by 7 weeks (with a couple of weeks of getting up only one a night, which isn’t bad). They are healthy and well adjusted. I would recommend the methods presented in Becoming Baby Wise to anyone with enough intelligence to implement them.
Back in the 1960’s, all my Mom had to do was to refer to a spanking belt that hung in the linen closet.
The belt even had a name: Brown Betsy.
“I said it’s time for bed. You heard me! Do I need to go to the Linen Closet and look for Brown Betsy?”
(followed by 3 kids shouting) “NOOO!! No Betsy!!”
Minutes later, it was ‘All quiet on the Western Front’
Brown Betsy my ass! I double dog dare you.
This article is bull****………makes no sense.
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If the kid is physically tired, then they should want to sleep.
Quadruple dose of NyQuil with Nine Inch Nails blasting and a strobe light in a dark room.
“This article is bull****………makes no sense.”
I read it as you’re getting the child to sleep for his/her benefit - doing what he/she wants to do, keeping him company, leading him versus you’re getting the child to sleep for your benefit - wearing him out, running him around in the stroller
Kids know. They can’t talk but they pick up your motivations
Love, Vs utilitarian
“ If the kid is physically tired, then they should want to sleep.”
They’re emotionally immature by definition. They’re reluctant to sleep. Many reasons. Fear. FOMO, inability to fall asleep physically unable
Toddlers need love, support, companionship for healthy development
People are bossy they allow their job to be their boss instead of letting the kids needs determine their day.
Then the have needy teens and young adults who can’t deal. They haven’t had the guidance.
That’s how I ready the article. It made senators me in that light.
So if you use a utilitarian method you don’t love the child ?
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No if you use the utilitarian method you love the child You’re running an orderly house/home and that’s loving. It’s not about loving the child it’s about living the child demonstrably. They respond
I’m saying that’s what I’m getting out tof the article
I’m saying it might not be BS
Is adding wiskey to a childs bottle an active or passive technic? Asking for a friend.
We had four kids.
They all turned out differently, especially the twins.
I think it’s birth order that determines how they develop.
It’s not that hard. Just have a relax ritual with the child that you do every time. Make them feel safe and calm as you put them down. And then teach them you really mean it once they’re down.
For years it was “Music Time” at bed time!! I’d crank 5... 6... 7 tunes and within that time all 3 kids were in La La Land!! Never thought anything of it but by the times they were 16, all of them have told me to FO!! So, I think it was something else!! Lol...
When they got older, around 6 or so, we took the exact opposite approach. We would still send them to their rooms at bedtime but would allow them to keep a light on and read or listen to the radio at a low volume (no TV however) as long as they wanted, provided they stayed in their beds. Almost every time, we would have to turn off their lights for them when we went to bed as they had fallen asleep long ago.
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