Unabridged Audiobook
This book is completely awful. I am a child occupational therapist and certified sleep consultant and this is guilting and shaming sleep deprived parents with misinformation and untrue claims. He offers no sleep solutions, but just tells parents to adjust their attitudes, cater to every want from your child, and just learn to enjoy this phase of life. His “research” claims against any type of sleep training are taken out of context and are actually about the harm done to very neglected and abused children, NOT about “crying it out” with loving parents who are helping the whole family learn to sleep well. He also makes claims about 1 month olds that “CIO” didn’t work for who later happened to also have ADHD, but no one would ever suggest sleep training a newborn like that. He also doesn’t understand basic infant sleep needs and claims some kids just don’t need to nap or sleep very much and may be up all night, when those are actually signs the child is chronically overtired and it’s NOT healthy at all for brain development. Sears also takes the approach of “attachment parenting” meaning physical attachment to parents and the breast at all times. Never in my yrs as a therapist have I heard this attachment theory to be taken so literal instead of just meaning to develop a healthy, emotionally available bond. Save yourself and do not follow this quacks advice.
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