We've all been there (and by me, I mostly mean you). Little miss fussy pants (diaper) doesn't want to stop crying. You just want to have a pint glass of pinot grigio after a hard day of work, and she's gotta start growing teeth or wants some milk or needs a diaper change. Or maybe she doesn't want to go to sleep, because her fun uncle is in town and wants to play right up until bedtime. What do you do?
Your first instinct might be to take the time to comfort her and do whatever else it takes to calm her before bed. However, this is a tactical error. Babies are a lot like dogs. They learn from experience. If you give your dog a treat every time it craps on the rug, the dog learns that crapping on the rug is good. Babies work the same way. By comforting a crying baby, you are essentially encouraging her to keep crying. In other words, you are teaching her to crap on the rug. So, take it from me, the best practice is to let that baby cry. Once she learns that she won't get any more comforting when she cries, she will stop crapping on your rug.
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Uncle Buck
5/22/2018 10:05:59 pm
#amateurhour, just subscribe to the failing New York times, and use it as your rug. Once the baby is used to pooping on the paper, move the paper outside.
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