Re: ABC news

P. Tierney wrote:
"Rose Garten" <Rosenugga@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:438C6228.5090406@xxxxxxxxxx

What I do have a problem with is paying someone a ton of money to do what parents could do on their own. 

    That's pretty much it for me.  Subletting any "hard" parental
tasks to others, and keeping the baby/kid around for play and
show-and-tell, is sometimes where it seems like things are going.
I can see them at parties with their friends, instead of swapping
stories about methods, books read, funny things that happened
in the process, it would be, "This is who I paid to get my kid to
sleep, who did you pay?  And oh, what was the number of that
person that taught your kid to pee in the potty?  I've been
meaning to pay someone to do that for months!  Now, where
is that cocktail tray...."


	Eh, I really don't see it that way.  I suspect
most of this woman's clients are hiring her more because
they feel they haven't got a clue than because they're
not interested in spending the time to do the job.  In
fact, I would suspect that most of her clients have her
in for observation for some nights and then just get
the email support and do it themselves.  I mean, it's not
like sleep issues are the sorts of things that everyone
knows how to handle and it's just a motivation issue.
All you have to do is look through the m.k archives to
see that there are loads of folks who are completely
confused about how to encourage a baby to sleep through
and lots of disagreement over what techniques are best.
	Obviously, a lot of this is common sense, but
as the old saw goes, common sense isn't particularly
common.  (And when sleep deprived, it's even harder
to come by!)  Mind you, I think this woman has a lovely
racket going on, but I think she's taking advantage of
people's confusion much more than their lack of
motivation.

Best wishes,
Ericka
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