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Review title: This book is horrible--nasty and cruel
Product review: Of course children need to sleep. Duh. What a novel concept for a book. But they also need security. Forcing them to cry it out in a dark room alone is *not* going to teach them independence. Insomnia is on the rise for kjids in the 8-12-year-old age range, and lots of researchers and therapists think it's because the kids were left to cry it out (the "method" in this book) instead of learning gentle, peaceful ways to fall asleep. Of course there are going to be people who post about their great success with this method. tehre are also plenty of us who have used gentler methods to teach our kids to fall asleep without any crying, fear, and distress. It's not a choice between this and never sleeping. It's a choice between using the quick and easy way (Weissbluth) or the longer, gentler, more effective way that won't cause later problems.
