Parent talk: Help your children develop a better bedtime routine

by Sheila O'Malley © Herald.ie 2008
Dr Miriam Stoppard wrote this week about the importance of good bedtime routines for your baby/child. I am not in favour of the current trend for training a baby to sleep termed "controlled crying".
This is where your child is left to cry for increasingly long periods of time in the hope they will stop crying.
This is very stressful for the parent and also for the child. As I see it; the only thing the child will learn is that there is no point in crying as no one will respond anyway.
Think of yourself as a baby and ask 'how would that make me feel?' I imagine I would feel abandoned, vulnerable, anxious and very alone.
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