On: What happens when babies are left to cry it out?

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Research shows no long term effects after age 6, positive or negative, of sleep training, so the research doesn't support your hypothesis.

Research shows many positive effects before age 6, both for the child and the family.

[metabagel → 0xEFF]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34179412

[lern_too_spel → 0xEFF]

As the article mentions, the research is amateurish. The experimental designs wouldn't pass muster at any tech company.

[shaklee3 → lern_too_spel]

except there's no better research to contradict it

[lern_too_spel → shaklee3]

Without valid research in any direction, we should fall back on our prior, which is that ignoring crying infants at night is no less detrimental than ignoring crying during the day.

[shaklee3 → lern_too_spel]

you're responding with that comment in an article with valid research.

[lern_too_spel → shaklee3]

As I pointed out earlier in this very thread, the article itself mentions that there is no valid research on the long term effects of sleep training.

The only valid research says that they stop waking up their parents. This is probably due to learned helplessness, which leads us to the hypothesis in my first comment.