Kathleen reported on the:
<<Article on sleep in NY Times>>
Which reiterated over and over again the importance of getting babies to
sleep independently.
My husband and I went to a class the other night (nothing to do w/ bf), and
the instructor gave us a sheet of paper in which business people from three
cultures (American, Japanese, Arabic) identified and then rated what they
considered to be the 20 top nationalistic traits of those cultures.
Unsurprisingly, the first one for Americans was freedom - the second was independence.
In both the Japanese and Arabic, family appeared in the top ten. No where in
the top 20 for Americans did family appear in any way, shape or form.
While I know that Japanese women bedshare (futon-share?) with their babies,
I don't know what Arabic moms do. But both of those cultures prize family.
Why don't Americans?
And it was SO evident that "independence" -- even in baby sleep habits --
was of the utmost importance in this article.
Jan
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