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’
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.
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...
For some reason I’m thinking of a bit from an H. Allen Smith book in which he refers to a song that his father would sing to the children just before slapping them to sleep.