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| Yes | 55% | 214 votes | Total: 389 votes | |
| No | 45% | 175 votes |
I learned the hard way that you should allow your babies to cry themselves to sleep. It is hard to listen to your child cry. It takes a great amount of will power not to go ru...read more
by J. Jewell
It is widely debated whether or not parents should allow their babies to cry themselves to sleep. As a parent expecting my fifth child in June, I can assure you I have been on b...read more
Before the birth of my daughter and well into the first few months of her life I was absolutely against the idea of allowing her to cry herself to sleep. It seemed a cruel, hear...read more
There is nothing wrong with letting baby cry for a few minutes at a time. It is letting baby cry, but using a controlled technique. When my daughter was a newborn, I began this ...read more
For the sake of argument, lets assume that we're talking about slightly older babies. The reason I want to clarify is because I think we (parents, especially) agree that younge...read more
When it comes to babies and children, letting them cry can be a very touchy subject. When you should and when you shouldn't let them cry themselves to sleep and if at all for t...read more
by Danielle B
Babies need to cry. There is only so many times you can comfort a child before he or she realizes that everytime they cry or whine, you will be jumping to get them and to calm ...read more
There will always be sleepless nights in the course of parenthood. Babies get sick, they have bad dreams and sometimes they just cannot get comfortable. Children are people, jus...read more
by Erinn Soule
Should babies be allowed to cry themselves? I think the answer is yes. Babies are learning how to live and grow, crying is a part of this process. If every time you pick up yo...read more
by JoAnn Wilson
It can often be hard for a mother, or father, to leave their child to cry alone and while I don't agree with parents allowing their children to use tears to get their own way, I...read more
Yes i do believe it is okay to let a baby or child cry there selves to sleep as soon as my children hit 6 months i let them cry there selves to sleep if i knew my kids were not ...read more
by Jayne Payne
I think it's absolutely a good idea to let you child cry themselves to sleep. If you're keeping to a tight bedtime schedule then the crying for no reason will end sooner than y...read more
by Phil Hill
Tempting as it is to pick your baby up and give them a cuddle, you will simply be storing up problems for yourself. Babies learn fairly quickly that crying brings mother or fath...read more
by sljengle
Yes. The reason most parents, grandparents, or caregivers go to a crying child who is supposed to be asleep is for their own good, not the baby. Now, I am speaking only of babie...read more
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by Sheri Price
I honestly feel I have an unfair advantage regarding this topic, and although I hesitate, I'm going to pull out all the stops and share why I believe allowing your child to cry ...read more
by A. Kyles
Should parents allow their babies to cry themselves to sleep? Absolutely not. I am a mother of three and never have my children, as long as I'm around and as far as I know, cr...read more
by Kate S.
Imagine: you are in a brand new place. You don't speak the language. In fact you cannot speak at all. You can cry. You can not move. You can not do anything for yourself e...read more
by Laura Zayas
Parents should not simply allow babies to cry themselves to sleep. Babies cry to communicate, and babies whose cries are attended to learn to trust a caregiver, an essential ste...read more
Should parents allow their babies to cry themselves to sleep? Parents and infants develop attachments or emotional bonds when the parents respond to their infants crying by pick...read more
"Trust vs. Mistrust". I heard it first in my high school psychology class. Erickson made a lot of sense to me at the time. But I wouldn't realize just how much sense for anot...read more
I had the happiest baby I have ever heard tell of. Did I let him cry himself to sleep? Never. Did he become more needy, and more demanding as a result? Not a bit. Should pa...read more
Parents should not let their babies cry themselves to sleep. Babies have no way to communicate to their parents or caregivers except to cry. If they cry for several minutes alon...read more
by Kim Sharpe
I know that a LOT of people advocate letting their baby cry itself to sleep. They feel this makes the baby self sooth or some such nonsense. I think its horrible. I did not l...read more
by Dana Seilhan
When it comes to parenting a young baby it's important to realize that infants do not think like adults do, or even as older children do. Their nervous systems simply are not d...read more
Absolutely no crying is allowed in my family, it is not to be ignored. Whether the child is 24 hours old or 24 years, the act of crying is a signal to other family members,...read more
Bedtime routine starts first thing in the morning... After successfully using this technique on my two youngest children to make bed-time a 'no-fuss' part of the day, I feel ...read more
Allow my baby to cry to get to sleep.... No, I don't think so. And I have thought over the question. If the baby cries just a little, I mean less than one minute, I feel it...read more
No, babies shouldn't be allowed to cry themselves to sleep. Not just because it seems like a heartless thing to do, but simply because of the fact that crying is the only form o...read more
by Ben Hughes
Before being a parent I would've answered "yes" to this question, but I'm now on the opposite side of the fence, if in practice rather than principle. Ideally I think it would b...read more
by Lisa Web
Should parents allow their babies to cry themselves to sleep? Use the cry it out (CIO) method? Use the Ferber method? NO! You are a parent, and it is now your job to comfort, p...read more
I had my first child at age twenty four and was completely inexperienced with children. Perhaps my son felt my tension and low self confidence in handling him- he refused to go...read more
by Nancy Heiss
One of my fondest childhood memories is of my mother holding me, gently stroking my face, and singing me soft lullabies. I was four years old and I was not an only child, yet sh...read more
by Kiran Ali
Crying is a baby's only way of expressing himself when he needs something. Ignoring it would mean you are suppressing his self-expression. This could have deep psychological imp...read more
by Aya Hajjar
I have a seven month baby boy and I must say: that from my humble experience I noticed that babies before six months old always cry for a reason. Until a baby is 40 days old, hi...read more

