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.   



 
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