ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP
...by to cry alone for longer periods inspire them into proper sleeping habits. On the first night when you hear your children crying, you wait about five minutes before going to check on him/her however you don’t pick him up, just pat him on the back. If he cries again, repeat the process until the child falls asleep. The next night you follow the same method but you wait 10 minutes, the third night 15 minutes and so on, until the child realizes how to sleep on their own. Although these theories make sense, I don’t believe they will be used frequently in the near future. When parents first have children they are physically and emotionally attached to them. So to keep the child in the room and let them cry would be torture to the parent having them knowing their child is left all alone to cry. A theory that I think would work would be to light the child’s bedroom with either a night light or a light outside the bedroom and close the door a little bit so a tiny bit of light comes i...