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@gavenv You may want to share this American Academy of Pediatrics position paper on corporal punishment (spoiler: don't). The consequences associated with parental corporal punishment are summarized as follows: corporal punishment of children younger than 18 months of age increases the...

@lionheartiv While I understand your macro point about risk, I think you’re misreading that study. Yes, they saw definite differences between children born between March and December of 2020 and children born afterward. However, it does not then follow that the cause of that was masking or...

@son_of_belial You might enjoy reading some of Ellyn Slatter's work, particularly division of responsibility.

@lemar349 I hear your point about not living in anxiety, and I think it's very true. At the same time, though, it seems like COVID falls victim to all or nothing thinking. Either you're wearing a respirator mask when you make your single weekly grocery trip that is the only outside contact your...

@anonymous9090 You might appreciate this review which was linked in the thread you posted. It was published in Nature at the close of 2022. The metanalysis included studies that covered about 80K patients. They found: “The prevalence of long-COVID was 25.24%, and the most prevalent clinical...

@bucj No idea! 100 years ago, I’d imagine kids were more likely to get sick/die due to things like poor sanitation. We know illnesses quickly swept through densely populated cities but the forced distance based on agricultural livelihoods likely meant kids living more rurally weren’t getting as...

@7thunders While I think there is a ton to unpack here (and I applaud your research and stance) I think it’s also important to clarify that it was normal prepandemic for toddlers to contract 12 colds per year, let alone other illnesses like stomach bugs, strep, etc. While I do see the links...

@the_precious_one This is really fascinating - while I agree it wouldn't sell well, that is absolutely the sleep program I'd probably want to do!

@paulinderjeetkhokher Thanks! The reason I thought of it as sleep training (and again the website is down so it's entirely possible its framed differently in how they describe the approach) is that Douglas calls out a few times that there is a behaviorist sleep paradigm, there is an evolutionary...

@iaian There are a number of citations to take a look at here. Here’s a small study on eighty infants that does suggest that progressive delays in response leads to greater self soothing at 12 months. There is some data but not super high quality that modifying responses to night waking at age...

@fromtheearth Thank you! I read this piece (though not the book) which has an extensive citation list, but I have a few qualms (though I need to read it in more depth so these qualms may well be unfounded). First, it's relatively self referential - while the reference list is extensive, the...

@pulickalbrothers OP, I don’t know if this will reassure you or not but I recently asked a question hear around the data surrounding extended rear facing and the answers are here. TL;dr: extended rear facing (past age 2) does not appear to confer any statistically significant reduction in...

@simondarok Both Weissbluth and Ferber you could say popularized the modern concept of sleep training (Ferber's first book was in 1985, Weissbluth's in 1987). The distinction between the two is generally that Ferber advocated for graduated extinction (timed checks) and Weissbluth advocated for...

@simondarok Thanks, this is a great point. I partially compare it because it comes up so commonly in sleep training conversations but also because Douglas herself lays out her method as an alternative to sleep training and calls it a "parent baby sleep program." It also seems pretty specific in...

I regularly see Possums Sleep recommended as a science-based infant sleep approach, rooted in research. Data on its effectiveness appears to be mixed. This study (157 mother infant pairs), for example, found that while breastfeeding rates increased in the group exposed to the Possums sleep...

@timothythe2nd Why would they move him down instead of keeping him in the 4-5 year olds class (and letting other, new kids move up to him)? If his behavior was good, I'd propose trying him in that class again. It could be boredom, as you state. I'd be leery to move him before the OT...

@jasonavery08 Safety is a spectrum not a binary. There is not a scientifically proven age where being put to sleep by someone else is appropriate. You don’t need science to validate the choice you want to make for your kid and your family - you can just choose what you want. Practices vary...