Every day new parents are being encouraged to 'train' their child to sleep - a practice in which they ignore their baby's crying and distress. In a groundbreaking new book, Helping Your Baby to Sleep, Australian educators Anni Gethin and Beth Macgregor draw on international research into babies' emotional and brain development to show that gentle sleep techniques are best for babies. By contrast, they argue that the popular 'controlled crying' approach can be detrimental for children and their parents.
They state: "The stories parents tell about controlled crying are often truly shocking. Many babies are suffering extreme distress over many nights; it is common for parents to say that their babies 'scream hysterically' and 'cry so hard that they vomit". Even in the best case scenarios
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