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- From: llf@alice.att.com (alice!llf)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: cars and babies sleeping
- Message-ID: <24704@alice.att.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:37:35 GMT
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- The baby falls asleep best when in the car? Don't do it, teach the
- child to sleep in his/her bed.
-
- Why? Because of the following fable. The names have been changed to
- protect the guilty. :-)
-
- Once upon a time, there were these totally clueless first time parents
- who both worked and had never been around children, and a very stubborn
- infant.
-
- Because the parents were at work all week, the infant learned to take
- naps at day care by laying down and going to sleep. Because the
- parents had busy weekends, and were having a tough time adjusting to
- non-DINK-hood, the infant fell asleep in the car for weekend nap time for many,
- many months.
-
- And on the rare days that they weren't out driving at nap time,
- the infant would keep going for hours and hours past it's nap time.
- They tried to teach the child to take a nap via the Ferber method.
- (Ferber-izing worked well at night because they did it every
- night in a row.) They failed for a number of reasons: because it
- was only for weekends, and only every 3rd or 4th weekend at that,
- because it was usually only one day of the weekend, because the infant
- could out last the parents in a contest of wills, because the parents
- didn't have the stomach for more than 2 hours of screaming.
-
- So the parents drove their infant for a nap every weekend
- until it outgrew naps at the ripe age of 3.5 years old.
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