Task number 1.
How to make a child sleep at night?
Since I am a father of four children, two of which are very small, others consider to give me advice to me. I, in general, do not mind. As one of my friend said: "I am grateful for any advice, I just do not promise them to use." Sometimes, however, I am somewhat surprised by the confidence of the goodwires in my sermost. For example, Marik late began to speak, and the anecdote about the unfavorable caress was told us twice a week for six months.
In short, some statistics have already accumulated. Mainly, public opinion is reduced to the fact that all the troubles from "incorrect education". Yes, I myself thought so before ...
Among other pedagogical stamps, a ten-fold diamond gaps the main covenant: do not give up to blackmail. If the child finds out that we can achieve something, he will keep it with you three skins and additives will ask. About this and history.
MARIK ate very long at night. He has already been fulfilled for him, and he woke up every night and demanded a bottle. Having fallen peacefully, but half an hour and hour the process was still leaving (it was necessary to prepare a mixture and warm up). We got up in turn (me more often). I am still proud that at the same time I managed to go to the gym before work. However, it does not apply to pedagogy. Anyway, but over time we got it, and we decided: it's time to end! For loyalty, I even consulted with a familiar kindergarten, and she confirmed that we have long heard from all sides: to stop the milk if it will cry, give water.
"And most importantly," she said to penetrate, "do not retreat. First, it can be difficult. But if you surrender on his screams and give milk, you will feed it at night to the age of adulthood. "
We have long postponed a decisive step, everyone could not get together. Finally, you slept, prepared and the process went. And I went not exactly the way we expected. That is, we expected bad, but so much ... Two hours the child screamed in all the power of young lungs. All sorts of compromise attempts like a driver he rejected from the threshold. At 2:30, 3:00, 3:30 we tried to persuade him. In the fourth o'clock in the morning, Sonya said she was ready to get up every night, but she could no longer tolerate. I sluggishly resisted, but in the soul was delighted to be responsible. Sonya prepared a mixture. MARIK joyfully sucked her in one sat and immediately fell asleep.
After that, he stopped waking up for night feeding.
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