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Kathy said,

> But what had me
> yelling at the TV screen was his comment on letting infants cry it out.
> "Its
> actually healthy for their lungs and makes them smarter" ?  WHAT???  Show
> me
> the research, Dr. Phil.
>

Ok, I didn't see the show.  But he really, truly said this?  CIO makes babies
SMARTER?  It's GOOD for their lungs?  Bill Sears once said that "crying is
good for the lungs like bleeding is good for the veins."  I suppose babies
learn while they are crying --- well yes, come to think of it, they probably
do -- they learn that this world and the people that mean the most to them
cannot be trusted to meet their needs.  They learn that if they need
comforting, they'll have to do it themselves because no one else will come to
them.  So here is this 6 week old baby who is crying and crying, needing his
mother desperately, but mom is several rooms away with a pillow over her head
so she can't hear her baby because Dr. Phil told her that her baby will be
smarter if she doesn't meet his needs.

Wow.  What an incredible indictment on the state of our world when someone (I
refuse to call him a facile, unthinking, cruel, poor excuse for a human being
who is promoting violence in a public forum) is trying to teach mothers to
become insensitive to the most vulnerable members of our society.

May his children treat him exactly the way he treated them or the way he
teaches others to treat their babies when he is so old and feeble that he
becomes one of the second most vulnerable members of our society.  And I wish
the same for Gary Ezzo as well.

Jan B

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