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...If it were me, I would be comfortable with setting limits on what I prepare, and letting dc choose what they eat other than that. I think that since she doesn't really have that many foods that she enjoys eating, and that she already thinks that veg*nism is wierd, that it would create quite a power struggle to set strict limits on what she is allowed to eat....Maybe you could leave eggs for now, and try adding other foods that she might possibly like- maybe tofu cooked in different ways? Stuff like that. If you do it gradually, it might not be such a big deal to her, yk?
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IMHO when you chose to adopt an older child, you also chose to adopt the ethics and morals that that child had already formed, even if they conflict with your own.
Thrilled to be expecting Baby #2 after 15 months TTC (a 30% drop in TTC time than Baby #1!)
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." Martin Luther
You know, I thought I agreed with that at first, but the more I think about, I'm not sure I do. For example, when my daughter first came to us and found out that we had gay and lesbian friends, she was completely grossed out. She made all sorts of negative comments. We told her quite plainly that we don't do that in our family and that, whatever her private feelings are, she is not to make derogatory comments in our hearing. Were she to want to go to an anti-gay rally or an anti-Jewish rally or whatever, I would not support that, nor would I assist her in doing so.
I wonder whether my trepidation in the vegan situation reflects a speciesism that, as a Vajrayana Buddhist, I try very hard to eradicate in myself?
Complicated by the fact that I feel a great responsibility for my daughter's health.
Hence, my uncertainty.
My Christian line of thinking with regard to animals was that God had given us dominion over the animals and all things, and that neither the animals nor all things were necessarily for eating. Dominion means we live here and care for/have guardianship over natural things. Perhaps she would be receptive to an alternate interpretation of Biblical teachings, if a Christian vegetarian discussed it with her. Or perhaps not (she sounds more obstinate than I am, and that's saying something )
Could you just ask your local farmer what he does with his particular male chickens and aging hens?
|If it's affecting her health, and she already has the deck stacked against her on that one, I would not only continue to give her eggs but fix meat for her as well.
If it's affecting her health, and she already has the deck stacked against her on that one, I would not only continue to give her eggs but fix meat for her as well. I know that most here will not share that opinion, but I just wanted to share what I would do in that situation. My kids health comes first, before the ethics involved with animal product consumption.
Would your daughter be willing to "try" finding other foods that she likes?
So I was talking to my friend the Bunny Man (he has 8 bunnies) about this and he says he buys eggs from his vet, who has two heated henhouses and that he doesn't debeak his hens and he doesn't kill them when they quit laying eggs. He keeps them as pets.
I think he'd be an excellent person to buy eggs from.
But where does he get his hens?
If he buys chicks, how does his supplier produce and raise the hens and chicks? Are the hens de-beaked?
If he buys sexed chicks, then the males were disposed of somehow by his supplier (they're commonly put through a shredder to make fertilizer, which is rather visceral to contemplate but is mostly humane).
If he buys non-sexed chicks, what does he do with the 50% of them that grow up to be roosters?
If he raises his own chicks, what does he do with the boys?
|You mention lacking vegetable and fruit nutrients. How about Emergen-C, Calci-Bears, Veggie-Fruit Bears? Or the Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness and carrot juice? We get all of the above at Costco for not a huge amount of money. They're really quite good. Orange juice has also been a big source of fruit nutrients for me.
There's absolutely no health benefit to eating meat over a plant-based diet. Especially for a person who has high cholesterol.
I heard a talk given by Dr. Sears where he reccommended these vitamins http://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/pages/Welcome.soa. I have heard good things about them from other people too. If she won't eat veggies and is low on the nutrients found in vegetables, it might be worth looking into.
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One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solvingand preventingyour children's sleep problems
Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that
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I am a stay at home mom of a 5 mo old boy and have been using this book since he was 2 1/2 months old and I love it! I use it all the time to refer to. What I like is that it gives you step by step instructions for getting your child to sleep. Until he was 4 months I did not let him cry at all. I tried soothing him to sleep, but then he would just wake up a few minutes later. He was really fighting anything I tried to soothe him. I got to the point where I felt like nothing I was doing was helping anyway. Then I decided to start letting him cry it out. It was the hardest thing to do, I cried with him pretty much the entire time. I started with his morning nap and he cried the entire time and I went to get him after an hour. Then he took his next 2 naps and went down for the night with soothing. The next day he took his morning nap fine but then cried though his 1st afternoon nap, the entire hour once again. He took his 3rd nap and went down fine for bedtime. The next day he cried for 45 min for his morning nap. Since then, he cries very little and goes down so easily! I was on the verge of giving up but I am so glad I didn't. I can not even tell you how liberating it is to be able to put your baby down - whether the baby is asleep or awake - it will change your life! He now sleeps from 7pm-6:30 am and takes 3 naps at about 8:30am, noon, and 3:30pm. He is so happy! I recommend it to anyone with babies they are struggling to get to sleep!
I was a Sears follower (an auther and pediatrician who encourages parents to always attend to children's cries during the night, otherwise called 'Nightime Parenting'). After 9 months my baby was still waking up 2-4 times per night and was sleeping erratically during the day for at most 2 hours, but usually less than one hour naps. We all were exhausted. I read this book and realized that I had not taught my daughter how to put herself to sleep, we had been running to her every whim during the night and she expected us to help her fall asleep. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child is a must read if you have a child who is not sleeping well. I now know that sleep is as critical to my baby as eating and stimulation. Our baby, now 10 months old, goes to bed at 6:00 pm and sleeps through to 6:00 am. She naps at 8:30 for an hour or two and then again at 12:30 for an hour or two. I lay her down and she rarely cries. Bed time is a joy. This book is a must read....
I found the information in this book to be very sound and doable as it is based on an entire career of research and experience as a clinician, pediatrician and well as a father of 4 children. Living in Chicago, I wish to share that Weissbluth has a long standing well-respected reputation. For me, this book taught my husband and I a variety of strategies regarding various sleep issues as our baby grew older. Most recently we consulted the book for the step by step process of how to get our 3 year old to stay in HIS bed all night. It takes tenacity and consistency (and maybe a couple of glasses of wine) to execute over a 3-4 day period...but the extinction method worked and I am so grateful my husband and I stuck it out. If you have a child that won't stay in his bed after you tuck him in...this book offers a way to solve the problem. This is THE book for handling all sleep problems. For more tips on managing a variety of related toddler/preschooler behaviors particularly common at bedtime (such as tantrums, bad words, power struggles, whining and many more), I wish to recommend 'The Pocket Parent'. Weissbluth is quoted several times in the chapter on Bedtime Refusals and Nighttime Fears. --These are two parent freindly books you can refer to again and again for insight and strategies that work.
My husband and I walked in to the pediatrician's office bleary eyed and exhausted with our 4-month old son, and practically begged for help. Without hesitation he recommended this book to us and it worked. I love it because unlike many other parenting books that are filled with emotionally charged discussions and mud-slinging for or against one style vs. another, this book only deals in facts and medical research on sleep patterns and brain cycles and how they change over the course of those precious first 2 years. This is not a book that advocates letting your child scream his lungs out, I am not at all a fan of the Ferber method. What I did like is that he says in fact, if you learn when your childs' ideal sleep window is, they will fall asleep much more readily and easily without the screaming than when they are overtired. I did have to endure a few nights of protest crying, but they lasted no more than 20 minutes and there was no distressed crying. There were parts of the book that were very clinical and somewhat dry as he attempts to build your understanding of the physiological needs for sleep, and I found myself skipping around a bit to the sections that pertained to my sons age to read the examples he gave. Just as he predicts, we would fall in to a time where the sleep schedule just didn't seem to be working and after a few frustrating days of a cranky baby I would remind myself to pick up the book and review his suggestions on how to make modifications, and they worked- EVERY TIME! There are some people who believe that being disciplined about their child's sleep is inconvenient for their schedule as parents, but I found the opposite to be true! No my kids did not fall asleep in their strollers or in car seats out at restaurants, and yes, I did have to modify my life for a couple of years, with a few exceptions, to insure that they got all of the sleep they needed, but the results were worth it. We had happy, delightful, never overtired babies. They had a consistently early bed time which meant relaxation and time alone for us as a couple. And now at 4 and 6 years old we have boys that are well rested and ready to learn. Even now when we have the occasional late night bed time, or when we are on vacation or traveling, I can really see a difference in their behavior with a little sleep deficit; particularly if the deficit occurs over several nights. However, because of this book and the training it provides, it is very easy to make some adjustments and get them down early for a few nights and we are back on track! I have two boys and both of them were very different in terms of their sleep patterns and needs. My youngest son never has slept as long at night or taken long naps like my oldest son. This book does not prescribe a one size fits all approach to developing good sleep habits. It gives you the ranges of what is considered normal and what the brain needs at each given age bracket and will require you to observe your child carefully over several days and invest a little bit of time in to changing your bedtime routines and patterns until you find their magic window where they fall asleep with very little crying. If you want a factual, informative book on how to create healthy sleep habits that will last for life-than this book is for you!
I am a mom to five kids and have used this method successfully on four of my children (my youngest is just 12 weeks and we're about to undertake sleep training once again). Anyway, I notice that the majority of the reviews are positive and I can't add much to the comments except to give a brief description of our success for the faint of heart. Plus, I would like to point out that those of us who opt for this method are NOT cruel or lazy or selfish (as some of the negative reviewers imply). We are simply parents doing what we feel is best for our children, our families and our own mental health. I know for me this book truly saved me from deepening depression, anxiety, and anger (towards my husband, my baby, and my other children as each baby came). When I was a chronically sleep-deprived mother I was not capable of being the mother that I wanted to be. My experience: Baby #1) Boy, started training at 3 1/2 months. He was colicky and slept a total of 8-9 hours out of 24. When not nursing or sleeping, he was crying. The only way I managed him was by walking (up to 6 miles a day) just so he wouldn't cry. I was burned out, resentful, wanting to return to work just to escape and found myself very depressed, tired and worn out. I found the Ferber book first, read it and tried the method. However, the intermittent reassurance only made my baby mad so I looked for more help. Thank God above, I found Dr. Weissbluth. As others have noted, his book gives scientific explanations in addition to advice and I found the personal testimonies very reassuring. I implemented his strategies immediately. His nighttime sleep improved quickly, but naps were more difficult. I stuck with it, however, and after 6 weeks of consistent training (and not much crying in retrospect), he was sleeping 10-12 hours a night and taking 2, 1-2 hour naps. This seemed nothing short of a miracle for my baby who previously took NO naps and slept intermittently at night. Baby #2)A girl born 1 1/2 years after her brother. She had her days and nights pretty mixed up so she slept great stretches during the day and screamed (and I mean screamed) all night. By eight weeks both my husband and I were completely fried. A story in the book was similar to ours so we started sleep training at eight weeks with the understanding that we would abandon it if she didn't improve quickly. Well, within 3 days she was sleeping 12 hours at night and taking 2-3 naps per day. Some nights she would sleep 14 hours a night. We were floored. Again, another 'miracle.' Baby #3)A boy. We started using the strategies early with this baby. By eight weeks he was sleeping 6 hour stretches at night with almost no crying. We were very in tune to his sleepy cues and tried to get him down for naps when he seemed tired. As Dr. Weissbluth notes, sometimes the naps work and sometimes they don't when they are only 6-8 weeks old, but being consistent can really help your child learn to sleep. Again, by 12 weeks, he was sleeping very well at nigth (12 hours) and taking 2 naps per day. Baby #4)A girl. I honestly don't remember any sleep issues with her (other than typical newborn crying jags and fussiness). We were very consistent with her, had her sleeping in her crib and made sure to stick to our routine. Yes she cried a little, but no long crying spells. Some days she couldn't be up for more than an hour at a time before needing another nap. She is now 5 and to this day she will say 'I need to go to bed now.' She knows when she needs sleep and she goes willingly. Even on Christmas Eve. Baby #5)A boy. He is almost three months and we have tried to 'train' him in fits and starts. It doesn't work. Consistency, patience and persistence are key. We are about to undertake sleep training again. We can see that he is getting overtired, irritable and unable to settle himself. Overall, this method works. Period. Again, it is not for everyone. If you prefer a
While the doctor is a specialist in the area of sleep the book fails to appreciate that babies are people with feelings. To give you an understanding of what I mean here are a few EXACT quotes. Page 177 'Use thick layers of zinc oxide paste in the diaper region so that no rash will develop when you do not go to your baby at night to change diapers.' How long to let your baby cry? Page 159 for naps 'no more than one hour' for bedtime 'there is no time limit at night if the child is not hungry or ill' Why do you let him cry? Page 159 'We are leaving him alone to forget the expectation to be picked up.' To answer 'Isn't crying harmful' he says: 'Not necessarily.' 'When a child cries she may more quickly unlearn to expect to be picked up.' And if your baby cries so hard she vomits? Page 176 'If the vomiting is irregular and occasional you should try waiting until after you think she is deeply asleep before checking, and then quickly clean her if needed.' (Wait until she's ASLEEP before checking? Clean her IF NEEDED?) In response to a parent who says she wants to respond to her crying baby at night, Page 178 'Letting your baby cry is not doing nothing. You are activily encouraging the development of independence' He then says you may not want to hear your baby cry because you have Page 179 'Working mother's guilt. You may feel guilty about being away from your child so much.' What if your baby climbs out of the crib? Page 193 'A crib tent will prevent your child from getting out of the crib, and it allows you to remove yourself from his protest crying' And if you don't want to use a crib tent because he says 'some parents feel that the crib tent locks their child in the crib like an animal caged in the zoo' then 'lock the door instead.' To keep a 3 year old from getting up too early in the morning 'Place a digital clock in her room and set the alarm for 6 or 7' 'You do not respond to her cries before this wake-up time.' Enough said. Not only are the ideas harsh and the grammer terrible, I much prefer the sensitive approach in The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley where you don't have to deal with vomiting, crying or crib tents.
I do not let my baby cry and would not let him cry for 40 minutes like one of the reviews stated or as the book states. That is horrible!!! A baby needs security like he had in the womb and to know his parents are there especially in the first six months. Allowing your baby to cry for long periods of time within the first six months can cause problems with insecurity for your child. Along with a gassy baby sucking in all that air screaming. I am surprised that any parent would actually take that advice and listen to their baby cry for long periods (40 minutes).It may work for the moment but later can resurface with deep rooted problems,insecurties and a dependency problem.
I read this book because my friend insisted I 'had to' and it was 'The Book'. I was horrified. The book tells you to let your poor baby scream and scream and scream. It tells you to go against every instinct naturally bestowed upon women (for a reason) and ignore your baby's only way to communicate, and eventually you'll be lucky enough that they just give up. That's not how I want to start a relationship with a baby. I want my baby to know he can trust me to be there for him. My son, by the way, is a great sleeper, still napping at age 4 and sleeping through the night. He wakes with a smile. My friend's kids? Well, she's still pulling out her hair 3 years later and constantly 're-training' them with the advice in this book.
My daughter swears by this book. She has used it as a resource for her first child who is now 3 and her second who is 5 months. My other daughter is having her first baby in November and I bought this as a gift for her. We have also given the book to numerous friends upon the birth of their first children.
I have had this book since my son was 10 months old and not sleeping well. He is now 8. When we started this book, he was sleeping about 7-8hr and napping about and hour a day. By the time he was 11 months old, he was sleeping 14 hrs a night and taking 2, two hour naps a day! He was such a happy baby after we started this! It is totally my bible and goes clear through adolesence. I still reference it because as they grow so does different sleeping patterns.
As an adoptive parent, I am appalled by the advice given in this book. The author insists that crying-it-out doesn't interfere with attachment. He never says anything specific about 'attachment in adoption' however, and makes no distinction between children who were adopted and biological children, and that alone is a huge red flag for me. All babies and children need to attach to their parents, and maybe letting your kid scream alone for an hour won't hurt a kid you gave birth to 'i have no idea, really' but he also advises this for adoptive parents, and that's just bad advice. In fact, adoption is only mentioned on 3 of the 457 pages of this book. It is almost completely anecdotal, too, and the advice given contradicts basic attachment recommendations for adoptive families. Example is cited below. There is one brief paragraph from the author, on page 428, ending with the sentence 'The following story illustrates how experienced parents were able to help their new child learn to sleep better, even though she hadn't slept well for nine months'. --Okay, how does HE know how the baby slept for the first 9 months prior to adoption??? The story goes on to say 'We arrived back home late that night....the next day we paid a visit to Dr. Weissbluth's office, and he advised us...put her down at 9am for a morning nap...if she cries, pick her up after an hour.' --AN HOUR, for a NEWLY ADOPTED 9 month old?!?! A later paragraph states 'I was convinced that she was missing her foster father and that she was grieving for everythign she had left behind in Guatemala....I mentioned my 'grieving' theory to Dr. Weissbluth, who politely discounted it. He said that when babies wake up in the middle of the night, they are in a twilight state between sleep and waking. They aren't likely to be grieving or doing much else.... he suggested putting her to bed earlier...she might still be overtired.' Again, this runs completely COUNTER to what we know of adopted children who CAN talk, for starters. And discounting grieving in a child who was attached to her foster family and had stranger anxiety and didn't know who these new strangers were??? --stranger anxiety was also mentioned earlier in the story. Later the parent writes 'Have these healthy sleep habits produced a happy child? You bet. 'she' is a joy to be around. As we've all gotten to know each other better she has become much more affectionate.' Does anyone else think maybe TIME GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER maybe was the huge factor there, since they were complete strangers at first? It's even possible, perhaps probable, that letting this poor little girl cry it out only prolonged attaching to her new family.
I have been reading this book and I am deeply disturbed by many things the author says, and the way that he approaches children, as if they don't matter and they do not have feelings. In one section he says, and I quote: 'Crying is not the real issue. We are leaving the child alone to forget the expectation to be picked up.' I found this goal frightening. I want my baby to know I will pick him up when he needs me, and I want him to be able to express his needs to me and know that I care. He says that to keep a child in the bedroom use 'a stiff door hook' and to keep a child in the crib use a crib tent to 'prevent social interaction at night.' He even says directly, 'Leave him alone.' I don't feel this is thoughtful or wise advice. If your child crys so hard she vomits, he says 'you should try waiting until after you think she is deeply asleep before checking and then quickly clean her if needed.' If needed?! That section alone makes me distrust the whole book. Several parents quoted in the book say they feel cruel, insensitive and guilty, and I can surely understand why. I would avoid this book and instead read one of the other books about children's sleep.
I purchased this book after my daughter's sleep turned into a disaster area. She used to sleep well and then stopped all of a sudden, she began to wake all through the night and stop napping, i looked to this book for help and found some. It was not written as concisely as I would have liked and it took me a while to figure out what I should do to improve her sleep, the one big tip i picked up was earlier bedtimes, this seemed to be the problem and really did help. I would recommend this book along with Nanny Wisdom and Dr Ferber's book. After reading all three of these books I was able to decipher what to do next, how much sleep my daughter needed and how to actually do it.
If you are into letting your child CIO this is for you but there are better more nurturing ways to meet your child's needs.
THIS BOOK IS A MUST- I wish I would've read this sooner. I am a mother of 4 1/2 month old fraternal twins and read this book front to back in a week (a milestone with twins). Up until reading this, I assumed that no person and not one book could assist in getting my babies to sleep in the early evening and keeping them down all night. I was a frazzled woman- waiting for them to fall asleep when they pleased & accepting that whatever sleep they got was fine. They were getting about 12 hours of sleep in 24 hours and were going down for the night at 10:30/11pm. After reading this book, I was able to put them on a schedule (didn't think I could, with twins) and after 4 days they were sleeping at 6:30pm for 12 hours & 3 hours in the day for their naps. Ahhh...time with my husband and happier babies during the day.
This book charms the new parent who is desperate for sleep. But 'sleep at any cost' is purely the wrong way to approach raising your child. Yes I think that any baby left to cry in the crib will sooner or later fall asleep and will learn that no one comes so why bother to call out. But I think that is what parents are for - to be there for their children day AND night not just when it is convenient or easy. The methods in this book are straightforward even when he tells you not to clean up your baby if he vomits lest you damage the progress of sleep training. The baby stage is very short and I don't want to look back at this time and think that I took the selfish route just for a few hours of sleep. A better and more loving approach is outlined in The No Cry Sleep Solution. I think you should check them both out before you decide if you want to sleep train your baby OR work with your baby's natural rhythms to gently help him learn to sleep better.
Here's a quote from the book 'If we place an arbitrary limit on the duration of crying at night, we train our child to cry to that predetermined time. When it is open-ended, the child learns to stop protesting and to fall asleep.' Well, sure. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep? Exhaustion and agony work. This requires a hard heart and lots of crying. He also says 'We are leaving him alone to forget the expectation to be picked up.' We are talking about a BABY here, a baby who deserves and needs to picked up and should expect to be picked up. I'm sorry that I started with this book, I'm glad I moved on to one that is more compassionate and loving: The No-Cry Sleep Solution. A better and more peaceful NO CRY way.
Just do everything this guy says to do. The parents on here who have insisted that the book is cruel have likely not read the entire book. The doctor who wrote it explains all of the theories and procedures. And, the goal, as those of us who have read this book know, is to PUT AN END to your child's crying and sleeplessness. The goal is NOT simply to make things easier for you (even though his methods will make things easier for you). The goal is to help your baby soothe himself and learn to sleep peacefully on his own, not to be PUT to sleep by a well-meaning parent. The complaint that I have, though, is that the book is TERRIBLY written. It is disorganized, grammatically awkward, and sectioned oddly so that it is nearly impossible to use it as a guide. You can't simply use it as a manual in the middle of the night. It is not a reference book. It would be better if you could look up the sleep issue that is impacting your child in an index and turn to a page for the magical solution to that issue. It doesn't work like that, though. Instead, you have to read the whole thing and dogear pages, highlight sections and weed through a bunch of anecdotal side-stories in order to find the solutions you seek. Nevertheless, this is a great tool for parents. Buy it and read it while pregnant so you're ready to go. Reading with an infant around will be impossible...
I found this book extremely helpful as a first time parent. My baby is an excellent night sleeper - slept for no less than 8 hours a night from her seventh day, however I have really struggled with day sleep since she turned 3 months old. This book was very informative and based on solid research. I trust the information and techniques talked about in the book and have already seen an improvement in my child's day sleeping patterns. She is now sleeping 12 hours at night and her temperament has returned to its joyful state of her early infancy. I fully intend to implement the day sleep schedule Dr. Weisbluth recommends for 5 month olds when she reaches that age.
I had several friends recommend this book to me and I am sure it is a very good book, but unfortunately I have not had a chance to read the whole thing. I just wish there was a cliff notes version! I know sounds ridiculous. I love reading but with a new baby who is now 4 months old.....I have no spare time to get a 400 something page book read! So being a tired mom I have been a little overwhelmed and as I have read it I feel like I have just messed up already and need to just wait til my next child. I tried to implement some of the stuff I read but my baby is just not having it! Everyone who has read it that I know swears by it, but it just wasn't for me and I know it was because of bad timing!
This book gives one piece of advice: if your baby isn't sleeping well, it's because he's over tired. There are a bunch of pages with studies and other information backing this up, but no information on HOW to get your overtired baby to sleep. It was worthless for me.
My title says it all. Since 6 months old, my daughter has slept 13 hours a night straight. As she gets older and needs less sleep, she shortens her naps...which is OK by me. Either it works for you or it doesn't......it saved my sanity...and every night is date night when my husband gets home!
I had high hopes for this book, but was sorely disappointed and frustrated. The advice was very confusing, inconsistent, vague and not at all realistic. To get a 3 month old to take 3 naps yet only be awake for 2 hours at at time (not to mention that they eat every 3 hours) requires 3 TWO-HOUR naps a day. The math just doesn't add up. The book is also poorly written and redundant, and I find the idea of letting my baby cry for unlimited lengths of time sickening.
The best parts of this book talk about scheduling your baby's nap times and setting an earlier bed time. Just following his advice on these items made a big difference in how long my baby sleeps. The first night I moved her bedtime earlier she slept for almost 8 hours straight! The descriptions of parents crying in their living rooms while their babies screamed in their bedrooms made me sick to my stomach. Ignore the cry it out advice and fear mongering that your child will be a moron if he doesn't sleep enough, and this book has some very useful information.
As a mother of three young children and health professional working with mothers and babies, I would NOT recommend this book for the following reasons: 1. His method: leave baby to cry for UNLIMITED periods (¿extinction¿) 2. Confusing and conflicting advice. 3. The ¿leap of faith¿ between the facts and his method. 4. Lack of a coherent strategy. 5. Patronizing and condescending tone 6. Exhausting to read (almost 500 pages). The book does have some interesting facts about sleep, but in the end, Dr. Weissbluth¿s ¿Trust me, I¿m a doctor¿-attitude could never convince me to follow his methods. There are gentler ways of helping baby to sleep well!


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The dying of the Left 8
Parties of the socialist Left are dying in Western democracies.
No need to look at Venezuela where the most recent total wreck of a country has been brought about by socialism to see that the creed has lost its appeal. Look at France, Britain, America.
The Socialist Party is finished in France:
Samuel Earle writes at The Atlantic:
The most open presidential race France has seen since the formation of the Fifth Republic, with four candidates in close contention, saw no place for the Socialist Party, a stalwart of the French political scene for the past half century. The election was full of surprises, scandals, twists, and turns. But for numerous reasons the Socialists were never really in the mix.
The Labour Party is done for in Britain:
Jason Cowley writes at the leftist New Statesman:
The stench of decay and failure coming from the Labour Party is now overwhelming. Speak to any Conservative MP and they will say that there is no opposition. Period. … Labour is fatally divided inside parliament and outside it. On its present foundations this Labour house cannot stand. The MPs do not want the leadership. The leadership does not want the MPs; it wants to unhouse them. [Jeremy] Corbyn … is not a leader … [He] has failed even on his own terms, and his failure has created a crisis of the left …
The Labour Party has had to advertise for people who will stand as their candidates in the forthcoming general election. Prime Minister Theresa May has called it because she expects to increase her (not very conservative) Conservative Party's majority by a very large number.
The Democratic Party in America became a socialist party. It lost heavily in the 2016 elections and is now in tatters.
This is what the American Left looks like these days. These are self-described "anti-fascists". They call themselves Antifa. Their banners are intentionally made to look like the banners of the Nazis. And they themselves look very like ISIS.
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And what of the Democratic Party leaders?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is rapidly going senile.
Honeymoon-in-Soviet-Russia Bernie Sanders distances himself from the Democratic Party yet has captured the support of its base. A strong indication of the party's disintegration there, as socialist Bernie leads the flock far off into limbo.
And what of Tom Perez, Chair of the Democratic National Committee? The party that won't condemn Antifa finds its susceptibilities hurt by Perez's constant swearing! And a minority of Democrats are disturbed by his announcement that the party will no longer tolerate members who are against abortion on demand. So-called "pro-lifers" are not wanted. In fact, abortion has become so central an issue that the party could fairly be named "the Abortion Party". On its way into oblivion, that is.
Tragically, though, it will leave behind it an heir that is even more thoroughly totalitarian, even more ruthlessly oppressive, even more cruel than most socialist tyrants – the Left's foster-child Islam.
To shrink bureaucrats and swat pundits 4
Adolf Hitler. Dictator of Germany. Oppressor of nations. He launched a world war that destroyed tens of millions of lives. He ordered the murder of millions more by execution, torture, incarceration, starvation, forced labor.
Or didn't he? There are American media people, opinion-writers, who seem to think that he didn't do any of those things. In their view Hitler was just an authoritarian figure who powerfully opposed political correctness, safe spaces, redistribution, and combating climate change by driving Priuses and recycling garbage. Therefore, any American who comes to power by democratic election and is against those things, is just like Hitler.
Or Hitler's Italian ally, Mussolini.
Persons who hold that view are ill-informed, under-educated, and/or intellectually stunted. But they are many. They are the rulers of the press and the airwaves; they constitute the greater part of the American Fourth Estate.
William McGurn writes at the Wall Street Journal:
Guess it depends on what you mean by "authoritarian".
During the election, Donald Trump was routinely likened to Hitler. The headlines suggest not much has changed.
From the New Republic: "Donald Trump Is Already Acting Like an Authoritarian". National Public Radio: "Donald Trump: Strong Leader or Dangerous Authoritarian?" The New York Times: "Beyond Lying: Donald Trump's Authoritarian Reality". The New Yorker: "Trump's Challenge to American Democracy".
What's striking here is that the same folks who see in Mr. Trump a Mussolini in waiting are blind to the soft despotism that has already taken root in our government.
This is the unelected and increasingly assertive class that populates our federal bureaucracies and substitutes rule by regulation for the rule of law. The result? Over the Obama years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute reckons, Washington has averaged 35 regulations for every law.
In the introduction to its just-released report on how to address this federal overreach, CEI President Kent Lassman puts it this way: "It is time for a reckoning."
Philip Hamburger is a law professor at Columbia and author of "Is the Administrative State Unlawful?" He believes the president-elect's cabinet selections thus far — Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency, Betsy DeVos for Education, Ben Carson for Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Puzder for Labor — may give Mr. Trump a unique opening not only to reverse bad Obama rules but to reform the whole way these agencies impose them. If Mr. Trump really hopes to drain the swamp, says Mr. Hamburger, cutting these agencies back to constitutional size would be a terrific start.
For one thing, almost all these departments are legacies of some progressive expansion of government. While an uneasy William Howard Taft, for example, made Labor its own cabinet office on the last day of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson named its first secretary.
Meanwhile, HUD is a child of LBJ's Great Society. The EPA was Nixon's attempt to buy liberal approval for his administration. As for the Education Department, it was a reward from Jimmy Carter for the endorsement the National Education Association gave him in 1976. At the time this cabinet seat was established, even the New York Times called it "unwise" and editorialized against it.
There's a good case that Americans would be better off without most of these departments meddling in our lives and livelihoods, however politically unfeasible this might be. The next best news, however, is that Mr. Pruitt, Dr. Carson, Mr. Puzder and Mrs. DeVos are not beholden to the orthodoxies that drive the rules and mandates these bureaucracies impose.
Mrs. DeVos, for example, has spent her life promoting school choice, and her husband founded a charter school. It is difficult to imagine an Education Department under Secretary DeVos ever sending out a "Dear Colleague" letter to bully universities into expanding the definition of sexual harassment and then encouraging them to handle allegations in a way that has turned many campus tribunals into Star Chambers. Not to mention making a federal case about bathrooms.
Ditto for HUD. Under President Obama, HUD bureaucrats, under the banner of "fair housing", have taken it upon themselves to decide what the right mix of race, income and education is for your town — and will impose fines and punishments for communities that resist. Anyone remember the people's elected representatives directing HUD to impose its ideas of social engineering on the rest of America?
Or take the EPA. Whether it's some Ordinary Joe running afoul of wetlands laws or the department's deliberate attempt to destroy the market for coal, the EPA needs more than good science. It also needs some honest cost-benefit analysis about the prescriptions it pushes.
And then there's Labor. Under Obama Secretary Tom Perez, the department has so overstepped the authority Congress gave it (for example, on its overtime rule) that federal judges have stepped in to block it, notwithstanding the courts' traditional deference. As an employer himself, Mr. Puzder appreciates the fundamental reality of labor: which is that you don't help workers by making them too expensive to hire.
The good news is that Mr. Trump does not have to fight government by regulatory fiat alone. House Speaker Paul Ryan has a raft of legislation that would reassert the authority of the people's elected representatives over an unaccountable bureaucracy — including a regulatory budget that would limit the costs an agency can impose each year.
Even without legislation, there are things Mr. Trump could do. Mr. Hamburger, for example, dreams of a president ordering federal agencies to submit all their rules to Congress for approval. He further believes the stars are in rare alignment for reform, with Mr. Ryan pushing it in the House, cabinet secretaries who appear sympathetic to the cause and a popular mandate against rule from above.
"Oddly enough, the danger is that Mr. Trump will not think big enough," says Mr. Hamburger. "To paraphrase him, the impact of changing the way Washington issues rules would be YUGE—and it would make him a historic and transformative president."
And he won't be putting his enemies into concentration camps. Or launching a world war.
And the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and the rest of them will no doubt claim he's only refraining from such actions in order to prove them wrong.
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An Investor's Business Daily editorial lists some of Obama's far left appointees, and asks: "Does he have any friends who aren't crackpots?"
But the question that arises from the list is: Has Obama any friends – has he ever had any friends – who aren't communists?
America is a country of 320 million people, most of them holding to traditional values. Yet President Obama keeps mining the fringes for his hires. Does he have any friends who aren't crackpots?
Seriously. The president keeps saying he champions the middle class and its values. But his choices of people to help him run the country are the most extreme in U.S. history, and his second-term nominations are more radical than the first.
No sooner had even some Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting down a cop killer-coddler for civil rights chief, Debo Adegbile, than Obama sent up a 2nd Amendment-basher for U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Vivek Murthy advocates doctors asking patients if they keep guns in the home, a shocking invasion of privacy.
Murthy may also have a rocky path ahead of him, but other extreme-left nominees are getting confirmed.
Last year, Obama tapped former Congressional Black Caucus chief Mel Watt as, of all things, head of the federal agency regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together underwrite 90% of all new-home loans. Republicans blocked his confirmation. But thanks to Democrats invoking the "nuclear option" and ending the filibuster, one of the most radical lawmakers in Congress is now effectively running America's mortgage industry.
Meanwhile, radical racialist Tom Perez runs the Labor Department, where he's threatening to sue employers who don't hire minority felons, just like he sued bankers who didn't make prime loans to un-creditworthy minority borrowers when he was civil rights chief.
You have to be a Kremlinologist to keep track of all the communist-sympathizing cronies orbiting this White House.
Obama's previous appointees include:
• Valerie Jarrett, his closest White House adviser, whose father-in-law worked closely with Obama mentor and Communist Party leader Frank Marshall Davis in a number of front groups during the Cold War.
• David Axelrod, Obama's political aide, whose mother worked for a communist organ in New York and whose mentor was Soviet agent David Canter.
• Van Jones, an admitted communist hired by Jarrett as Obama's green jobs czar.
• Anita Dunn, former White House communications director and Obama's 2012 foreign policy debate coach, who listed communist dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong as one of her two favorite philosophers whom "I turn to most" when questions arise.
The other was Mother Teresa. The message: Torture, kill, pray.
• Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar who wrote a socialist "bill of rights" and who advocates redistributing wealth through climate-change policy.
• Samantha Power, ambassador to the United Nations, a 9/11 apologist who advised the president to follow a "doctrine of mea culpa" and literally bow down to foreign leaders as atonement for America's "sins."
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, former State Department policy chief, who advised the president to apologize for the War on Terror.
• Rashad Hussein, Obama's Mideast envoy, who once defended a convicted terrorist (then got caught lying about it), and drafted the president's Cairo speech apologizing for the War on Terror.
• Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's Soviet-sympathizing chief nuclear arms negotiator, who thinks America is a global "bully" and must unilaterally disarm for the sake of world peace.
• John Trasvina, assistant HUD secretary for fair housing who once headed the radical Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, whose co-founder made racist statements about whites.
• Cecilia Munoz, head of White House domestic policy who used to work for La Raza, the militant Latino group that advocates illegal immigrant rights.
• Erica Groshen, Bureau of Labor Statistics chief who sends her children to Camp Kinderland, aka "Commie Camp," a communist-founded institution where kids during the Cold War sang Soviet anthems.
• John Holdren, Obama's science czar, who's advised surrendering U.S. sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" that will redistribute the West's wealth to underdeveloped countries and who once advocated "adding a sterilant to drinking water" to control population.
• Harold Koh, former State Department general counsel who believes in "trans-nationalism" and sees nothing wrong with Shariah law in U.S. courts.
• Tony West, associate attorney general who oversees Gitmo policy, even though he defended al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists including John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy and fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
So what? In Washington, personnel are policy. These people make the rules we have to live by, from health care to home loans to homeland security.
And these radical political appointees hire other radicals at the bureaucratic levels, where they'll become entrenched as career federal employees.
In 2008, before Obama was nominated, we warned about his radical associations, including his ties to Davis — a hardened communist with a thick FBI file — at his Honolulu home. His defenders wrote off this Marxist indoctrination as youthful experimentation.
When we pointed out Obama spent 20 years in the pews of an America-bashing preacher, his apologists argued he was merely attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church to burnish his urban bona fides.
When we noted Obama launched his political career in the living room of an unrepentant communist terrorist, his defenders argued Bill Ayers had blossomed into a respected professor, that his days of cheering on the Vietcong and bombing the Pentagon were behind him.
We were told the parade of anti-American subversives Obama came in contact with throughout his life amounted to ancient history. But now we have this roster of radical appointments, a current record that's harder to explain away and which raises the indefeasible question of whether they're a reflection of himself.
Only there can be no question about it. He and they are birds of a feather.
The enemy has gained the commanding heights of power.
"Payback time" at the DOJ 2
Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, does not apparently approve of the rule of law. In fact, he is actively working against it.
An exaggeration?
J. Christian Adams, who was a voting rights attorney at the so-called Department of Justice tells a story that bears out the accusation. He has resigned because the DOJ will not prosecute the Black Panther thugs who tried to intimidate voters on election day 2009.
Here's part of an article he has written about it:
On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.
The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.
The federal voter-intimidation statutes we used against the New Black Panthers were enacted because America never realized genuine racial equality in elections. Threats of violence characterized elections from the end of the Civil War until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Before the Voting Rights Act, blacks seeking the right to vote, and those aiding them, were victims of violence and intimidation. …
Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law. Others still within the department share my assessment. The department abetted wrongdoers and abandoned law-abiding citizens victimized by the New Black Panthers. The dismissal raises serious questions about the department's enforcement neutrality in upcoming midterm elections and the subsequent 2012 presidential election.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the dismissal and the DOJ's skewed enforcement priorities. Attorneys who brought the case are under subpoena to testify, but the department ordered us to ignore the subpoena, lawlessly placing us in an unacceptable legal limbo.
The assistant attorney general for civil rights, Tom Perez, has testified repeatedly that the "facts and law" did not support this case. That claim is false. If the actions in Philadelphia do not constitute voter intimidation, it is hard to imagine what would, short of an actual outbreak of violence at the polls. Let's all hope this administration has not invited that outcome through the corrupt dismissal.
Most corrupt of all, the lawyers who ordered the dismissal – Loretta King, the Obama-appointed acting head of the Civil Rights Division, and Steve Rosenbaum – did not even read the internal Justice Department memorandums supporting the case and investigation. …
Most disturbing, the dismissal is part of a creeping lawlessness infusing our government institutions. Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases.
Some of my co-workers argued that the law should not be used against black wrongdoers because of the long history of slavery and segregation. Less charitable individuals called it "payback time." Incredibly, after the case was dismissed, instructions were given that no more cases against racial minorities like the Black Panther case would be brought by the Voting Section.