Re: ABC news

"Ericka Kammerer" <eek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> P. Tierney wrote:
>> "Rose Garten" <Rosenugga@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>>>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'm exaggerating a bit, of course.

> 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 don't know, it doesn't specify. As a matter of
economics, there aren't too many that can toss 50k out
there for such things -- and more for all of the other
"challenges" that lay down the road.

> I mean, it's not
> like sleep issues are the sorts of things that everyone
> knows how to handle

I agree.

> and it's just a motivation issue.

I don't agree. I think it is motivation, as well as
priorities. Because....

> 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.

.... it can be done, and the m.k archives are (I guess)
filled with people who were motivated enough to find a
way how to do it. As well as those who spoke to
parents, friends, parenting groups, and others to
deal with the same thing -- and many others that
lay down the road.

> Obviously, a lot of this is common sense, but
> as the old saw goes, common sense isn't particularly
> common.

It wasn't common for me, but like most people,
I found a way to deal with it.

> (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.

It's conjecture on both of our parts. But I'm guessing
that those shelling out this kind of cash aren't m/k surfers
and sleep book readers who just couldn't make it happen.
I'm guessing that they might've tried some things, but
gave up because they had enough cash to allow them
to give up -- on this and other things in the future -- and
paid someone else to do their parenting work.


P. Tierney


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