It isn’t just torture for the baby. It causes PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE.
According to the article, 40% OF BABIES ARE BEING ABUSED this way.
Look at the way people are leaping to the defense of child abuse on this thread.
I think it is important to know the difference between helping a child learn self soothing techniques and just letting a child scream on and on and on.
40%?????
I didn’t read the article (yet) because I suspected it would totally freak me out. Reading about cruelty to children, as well as animals and the elderly, pains me so much I can hardly stand it. (Of course the Islamic jihad thing too but aside from that).
The idea that little children and babies should be left alone to cry is nothing short of demoniac.
You are completely right this is child abuse. It’s a very old notion still encouraged by pediatricians for some bizarre reason. Hard to fathom because all the psychology is against this, not to mention the instinct’s of any normal woman.
To listen to a small child scream in a desperate manner for anything, help, attention, bottle, toy, is simply inhuman. Some say “crying to sleep” and feeding “on a schedule” may instill an early insecurity that leads to later eating disorders or self-harm behavior.
Makes sense when you realize a child pleading for your comfort, you who are a god to him, is being told they are not worth the effort, can suffer, can starve.
Women, for God’s sake, you don’t need to mollycoddle, but don’t listen to your doctor. Love, hug and nurture your baby. When they are ready to be “independent” you will have instilled the sense of confidence and safety to enable them to walk away from you, about age 2! Then the idea is you respect the distance the child sets! Which means you don’t smother, but are available when they fall or get scared and turn to you. Which means you don’t work full-time.
And by the time they are 10, forget all this stuff unless they show a desire for it. I can’t believe how many moms want to cuddle and pet their 12-year old boys (”I love you! Jared, don’t you love me?”) but think a baby should be “trained”!