Educating the Experts – Lesson One: Crying
You call yourselves “baby whisperers” and “experts” on how to get babies to sleep and though you write books telling parents exactly how to care for their children, it seems as though you all require a...
View ArticleEducating the Experts – Lesson Two: Needs
Have you ever been fed, clothed, and dry and still been sad? Or scared? Or simply felt the need for human contact? If you answered no, you are either a psychopath or lying.
View ArticleEducating the Experts – Lesson Three: Touch
In this lesson, I hope to outline for you the myriad ways in which touch affects our lives and why any advice that promotes a reduction in touch isn’t serving to help our children at all.
View ArticleEducating the Experts – Lesson Four: Self-Soothing
“What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.” - P.D. James
View ArticleEducating the Experts – Lesson Five: Schedules
Knowing how your day will generally go is harmless. But when parents start trying to dictate their days down to the hours, regardless of whether this was “guided by baby” or set up by someone else, we...
View ArticleEducating the Jasseys – Lesson One: Parent-Centric Parenting
"The Newborn Sleep Book" is out. It's a book telling parents how to sleep train their newborns. Written by paediatricians. Who apparently need some "education". Your welcome ;)
View ArticleEducating the Jasseys – Lesson Two: The “Newborn Sleep Problem”
Apparently babies being babies is a "problem". We must fix this or we'll have raging brats running rampant. Oddly this idea doesn't seem to fit with the rest of human history. Or science.
View ArticleEducating the Jasseys – Lesson Three: Myths and Truths of Early Parenting
The Jasseys have their ideas about what early parenting looks like and want to dispel some of those nasty "myths" about it. I'd like to dispel their "truths" about it!
View ArticleEducating the Jasseys – Lesson Three: Myths and Truths of Feeding and Sleep
The Jasseys have their ideas about what feeding and sleep looks like for a newborn and want to dispel some of those nasty "myths". I'd like to dispel their "truths" about feeding and sleep!
View ArticleEducating the Jasseys – Lesson Three: Myths and Truths of Sleep and Sleep...
The Jasseys have their ideas about what infant sleep and sleep training should look like and want to dispel some of those nasty "myths" about your child's sleep. Let it be known: Their "truths" happen...
View Article“Shut the Door and Walk Away”
I feel like sleep trainers are like a mythical monster where every time you cut off one head with science and reason, two more take their place that are even more dangerous than before. In the last few...
View ArticleEducating the Experts – Lesson One: Crying
You call yourselves “baby whisperers” and “experts” on how to get babies to sleep and though you write books telling parents exactly how to care for their children, it seems as though you all require a...
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