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Originally Posted by chemommy25  So sometimes when i put the little one to bed he cries. of course I run in there to get him and rock him to sleep, i hate hearing him cry. I'm afraid im spoiling him.
my question is, how long do you let babies cry when you put them to bed?
do you let them cry at all?
Do you go in there and pick him up when he crys really loud?
I just don't know what to do some nights. It's not me im worried about it's the baby i hate hearing him cry. |
He'll do fine. Crying is pretty much their only means of communicating and until they mature a little, just about everything is going to make them cry - bored, frustrated, tired, hot, cold - so it's unavoidable. And just cause they're crying about something doesn't mean that getting what they want is the best thing for them. I've had enough fights with a little boy who wants goldfish and not green beans or who wants candy and not his mac and cheese. A little boy who cries when he doesn't want to be changed, or who cries when his toy doesn't do what he thought it would do (like, *fly*). A little boy who cries when I stop him from putting a car key in the electric socket.
They're just going to cry. Eventually, you'll get very good at distinguishing the real cry from the phoney ones.