Seeing
your baby cry is perhaps the most heartbreaking moment of all. You don’t want
him to cry. You want him happy. And of course, you want him healthy. But for
all that to happen, he needs to sleep properly.
It
would be nice if your child could learn how to sleep without any crying or
frustration whatsoever. Every parent would sign up for that. Unfortunately, the
truth is that all children, regardless of the method you use to help them
sleep, inevitably do shed some tears in the process. Let’s see why.
First
and foremost, children cry when learning to sleep because they are protesting –
they don’t like change. In fact, they hate change. Just think about it.
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| BABY SLEEPING TRAINING |
Do you
remember what your favorite book was as a kid? Do you remember wanting to read
that book over and over again, even though you knew every word of it?
We all
resist change, children and adults alike. It’s normal to do so, and it’s normal
for your child to express his resistance by crying. After all, crying comes
before words – not the other way around.
Second,
as children begin to learn how to sleep but haven’t yet figured out how to do
so, they are understandably frustrated. They no longer have Mom and Dad on
their side to help them get to sleep, and they don’t yet know what to do
differently. They will eventually.
What’s
really interesting about falling asleep is that although each of us is born
with the inherent ability to do so, it is considered a learned behavior. And
yet you can’t teach anyone else how to do it – you can’t simply say to your
child to close his eyes and sleep. Instead, each of us has to learn for
ourselves what to do to settle into sleep.
