Posts Tagged Under tantrum
Let’s All Whine Together!
My daughter loves to whine. When she does so she accompanies it with jerky body movements that some might think could be a new dance.
One shoulder slumps down, the other back, while her arms flail in front of her. This is accompanied by a chorus of, “I don’t want to. No. I don’t want to. No. I don’t want to. N-o-o-o-!”
Can you feel the beat? The girls got rhythm. And something else – an ability to drive me insane.
When my 8-year old is rockin’ out to her whines and throwing her body in all directions, it causes me to do the same only in an adult manner
“STOP. NOW. I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE WHINING.”
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Ferberizing Your Young Adult
Emma slept through the night at seven-and-a-half weeks, and was a marathon napper through toddlerhood. I never had to contend with letting non-sleeping babies cry. I never needed to know about “Ferberizing.”
Ferberizing, named after its inventor, Dr. Richard Ferber, is a method of encouraging independent sleep by allowing a baby to cry for progressively longer intervals without excessive soothing. The real trick is to increase the parents’ ability to wait out their infants’ crying without rushing in to pick them up. Staunch adherents of the attachment parenting style promoted by renowned pediatrician Dr. William Sears view Ferberizing as verging on child abuse. Many exhausted parents swear by it, but warn that it is not for the faint-hearted: You have to be able to tolerate your baby crying, sometimes for long periods.
If Emma had been a poor sleeper, I would have been a faint-hearted mother who failed miserably at Ferberizing, unable to bear the torture of my baby’s distress. Continue… »
By Lorrie Goldin
