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Dienne
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Saying, "It turns out babies seem to cry for no reason at all" sounds suspiciously like saying "We don't know why XYZ happens - it must be God." In other words, you can't find an answer, so you dismiss the question.
I can't accept that babies cry for no reason. I realize that crying is different for a baby than for an adult, but in either case, it's uncomfortable. It's much more comfortable to be peaceful and content. Why would a baby choose to distress itself for no reason? Why wouldn't it just be happy and content unless something was wrong? There's got to be something going on - ear aches, digestive problems, teething, something - that is causing distress which is why the baby is crying. Just because you can't determine what that something is doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Reality
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what a dumb non-imformative article.
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critic
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"Eliot, who now has three children, has encouraged them to think critically and question things around them, but that does not always go over well at school."
What does that mean?! That is the most intriguing sentence in the entire article, and we get no explanation on it!
This article is extremely fluffy. No discussion about the actual practical implications of trying to use left-brain thinking to raise a child. This was obviously written by a right-brainer!
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idiot
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This was probably something who asked if boy/girl twins were identical.
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Bob
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Dienne- FWIW, the blog post mentioned is all about the possible reasons for babies crying. The guy's thinking all started because the "no reason" explanation seemed unlikely to him. He also finds evidence against your proposed explanations...
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Dienne
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Bob wrote: Dienne- FWIW, the blog post mentioned is all about the possible reasons for babies crying. The guy's thinking all started because the "no reason" explanation seemed unlikely to him. He also finds evidence against your proposed explanations... Um, then we must have read different articles, because I don't find any explanation in the article I read, other than the dismissive "no reason" one I originally quoted. And I'm also still looking for the "evidence" against my proposed explanations you mentioned. The article says that such evidence exists, but it lists absolutely nothing. I agree with those who said that this was a fluff piece.
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Colleen
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Dienne wrote: <quoted text>
Um, then we must have read different articles, because I don't find any explanation in the article I read, other than the dismissive "no reason" one I originally quoted. And I'm also still looking for the "evidence" against my proposed explanations you mentioned. The article says that such evidence exists, but it lists absolutely nothing. I agree with those who said that this was a fluff piece. Um, then I'm wondering if you even looked at this link??? Which is included in the article. dansisan.blogspot.com
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Neil
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There is no exact science to raising kids. They can all be little pains for no reason at all. That is the only science I know for sure with children.
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aunt teresa
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This is a disappointing article with a misleading headline.
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Get Real
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I laughed when I read this. It takes a guy to whine and write about what women have just coped with and accepted for centuries.
MEN: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
BTW: It is a non-article.
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ChicagoGuy
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Worst. Article. Ever.
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Oprah
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I had a person on my show who claimed that she could tell the difference between cries for hunger, gas, poop, sleepy and lonely.
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Lisa
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Dienne wrote: ...It's much more comfortable to be peaceful and content. Why would a baby choose to distress itself for no reason?... A newborn baby doesn't "choose" anything. It is. I think the people who are uncomfortable with the idea that babies cry for no reason are the baby-book readers. They have to have an experts explanation for everything. I don't think our great-grandmothers would have been surprised by the notion, but they were experiential and intuitive than most people today.
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Connie
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Get Real wrote: I laughed when I read this. It takes a guy to whine and write about what women have just coped with and accepted for centuries.
MEN: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. How is researching scientific literature "whining"? And are you suggesting that women have less curiosity than men? Personally, I'll happily keep my husband in the "kitchen." Also, I didn't think the article was that bad.
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Judge it!
