Getting children to sleep
Sir,—Whether or not children need to sleep with their parents is debatable. They certainly desire it, but then children desire all kinds of things that responsible parents are not going to give them. Most parents would have experienced screams of rage and frustration when they prevent their child from having or doing something it has set its heart on. Sleeping through the night in their own beds is just the same, and no parents need feel any more guilty than they would if they denied their child a chocolate bar every time they went to the shop. As for creating independent children, my daughter is very independent and confident; but I have seen several children of the same age who have been breastfed for a number of years and who sleep with mum and dad who will not leave mum’s side. — Yours, etc., T. E. MOON. May 31, 1984.
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