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 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html