I’ve heard people explicitly tell mothers that if they know the - TopicsExpress



          

I’ve heard people explicitly tell mothers that if they know the baby isn’t hungry or in pain or tired or in need of a diaper change that their babies’ cries don’t mean anything and they can ignore them. This fallacy (yes, it is a fallacy) is the basis for most of the non-responsive parenting techniques that get advocated for today. Sometimes it’s so an expert can sell a book, but sometimes it even comes from the most well-meaning of programs aiming to reduce things like infant abuse or shaken baby syndrome. Regardless of the source, though, the message remains wrong. And it has to stop. Every time a baby cries, he or she is trying to communicate. There is no time in which babies just cry for the heck of it. There really, honest-to-goodness isn’t.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:15:00 +0000

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