On 01/03/2012 23:36, Ingrid wrote:
> Another powerful way to ‘put yourself in the baby’s shoes’:
>
> Imagine that the other person in YOUR most intimate relationship (as adults,
> that’s usually our marriage / sexual relationship) refused to respond to
> your distress, insisted that you stay alone no matter how much you needed a
> hug, quizzed you every time you made yourself a snack, or told you to keep
> eating when you were full or didn’t like the food...
>
I wrote, a while back, about what I feel to be the problems with using 
that scenario as an analogy with sleep training: 
http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/05/09/why-i-dont-believe-that-sleep-training-is-incompatible-with-childrens-rights/


Best wishes,

Sarah

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