frustratedytwatcher wrote:Anyone think O and K smoke pot?
I'm pretty sure there were pictures/comments on Kyra's Twitter way before Levi that showed her smoking pot or talking about smoking pot. I'm positive her and Oscar at the very least used to smoke. Remember that Oscar worked at a vape shop when Kyra got pregnant. Vaping and smoking weed are two different things, but I'd be shocked if an 18-year-old working at a vape shop didn't also smoke some weed.
As for the CIO stuff, I disagree with letting a baby cry for hours on end or cry until he throws up, but I do think letting babies cry it out for a short period of time is important in having them learn how to self soothe. Obviously I would never suggest having a baby younger than 5 or 6 months cry it out, but at Levi's age, I don't see anything wrong with letting him cry for 10 minutes or so before going in to comfort him (albeit lights off, don't pick him up, don't stimulate him too much the way O especially is prone to do). Maybe start with shorter time interval (two minutes of crying before comfort, then four minutes of crying and so on). The problem with O and K is that they probably don't have agreed upon times of how long to let him cry. They just figure cry it out means cry until he's totally exhausted and cried himself to sleep after hours of screaming.
At the other end of the spectrum, my baby cousin is nine months old and his parents will not let him cry at all. They immediately jump in to soothe, whether he's crying during play time or whether it's when going to sleep. You can't take anything away from him because then he'll cry, and that's not ok in their book, so he ends up playing with all kinds of things that he probably shouldn't have. And he doesn't sleep at night. He still sleeps in a pack n play in their room, not his own crib, and he doesn't sleep for longer than 90 minutes/two hours at a time. The second he starts crying, my cousin picks him up to nurse him as comfort. He still doesn't self soothe, he needs to be held always, he isn't eating solids well (probably because of all the nursing) and my cousin is totally exhausted and stressed out because she hasn't slept in nine months. Then again, my cousins also wouldn't burp the little guy when he was a newborn because they were scared he'd spit up. The poor baby was always so bloated with gas and was fussy all the time.
Extremes either way are bad. Letting a baby cry for hours or get way too worked up is bad, but so is not allowing a child to cry at all (in my opinion).