As a parent, it may be common to hear unsolicited advice from doctors, family and friends on what's best for your baby. Now, a new book is questioning those ideas by breaking down the data on parenting.
As a parent, it may be common to hear unsolicited advice from doctors, family and friends on what's best for your baby. Now, a new book is questioning those ideas by breaking down the data on parenting.
"For many years, people have been given the advice not to give their kids allergens like peanuts very early on, and actually in the last few years we have learned that people should have been given the opposite advice -- that you should give your kids peanuts and other kinds of allergens when they are very small in order to prevent allergies," she said.
Can crunching the numbers make you a better parent? @ProfEmilyOster debunks parenting myths using a data-driven guide in her new book"Cribsheet." pic.twitter.com/X7nccPHnWX With our daughter, Penelope , breaking the swaddle led to sleep regression, followed by a long reliance on a product called the Rock 'n Play Sleeper, which I still have nightmares about. Other parents have told me stories of seeking secret online sources for larger size swaddles. There are women on Etsy who will create a swaddle blanket for your eighteen-month-old. Please note: Just because there is a secret market for something on Etsy doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.
Should I keep him awake in the hopes the power would come back on? It could be days. Should I just swaddle him and figure he'd be hot? This seemed irresponsible and also kind of mean. Should I just hold him while he slept and not put him in the crib at all until it cooled down? This was also very hot, and experience suggested he wouldn't sleep for long in my arms.
Obviously, an hour later the power came back on. By then Finn was sleeping. I asked Jesse if I should go in and swaddle him now. Jesse told me I was nuts, and collected all the Miracle Blankets for the charity bin. As I lay in bed that night, I wondered if Finn would sleep worse now, if I should go dig the blankets out of the bin and wrap him in one. I was tempted to jump on the computer and read stories of swaddle-induced sleep regression, or lack thereof.
We can do better, and data and economics, surprisingly, can help. My goal with this book is to take some of the stress out of the early years by arming you with good information and a method for making the best decisions for your family. These questions don't die out as your child ages, either. Sleeping and eating just start to stabilize, and then you'll get your first tantrum. What on earth do you do with that? Should you discipline your kid? How? Exorcism? Sometimes it seems like it. You may just need a break for a minute. Is it okay to let the kid watch TV? Maybe one time the internet told you watching TV will turn your child into a serial killer.
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