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Parenting Blog Roundup 10.07.08

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Z Recommends draws attentions to a potential problem with Carter's tagless infant clothes. One reader reports: "as I took off his pajamas, the skin on his upper back came off with it."

What else is happening in the Parenting Blogsphere? The war on sleep training, babyproofing your radiator and encouraging your child's creativity. It's all after the jump.

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Your kids aren't sleeping? Then you aren't either. If you missed Babble's article "The Sleepless Generation: The unhappy results of the war on sleep-training" it's worth a read.

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If you have them, now is the time of year to think about babyproofing your radiators. A Child Grows in Brooklyn has some good information and resources.

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Maria of One Hour Craft inspires us with these essays on nurturing your child's creative spirit.

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Parenting, personal health, safety & security, sleep, radiator, babyproofing

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Thanks for the link about the tagless clothes. Those brands are all my son wears - I will keep an eye out for problems.

posted by inkstainedwriter on October 7th 2008 at 7:18am
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That article on sleep training is pseudo-scientific and insulting. For one thing to say that not sleep training a child means they get less sleep - in fact it may be the opposite. I taught my child to take naps in his crib, but he still sleeps much longer when we nap together. The article claims we're "wired" for deep sleep, but if that were really true why do so many babies wake so frequently? If they were really "wired" for that we wouldn't have to train them. If you need to sleep train for your own sanity, fine - but to try and claim that NOT doing it somehow makes you a bad parent is highly suspect.

posted by sparklish on October 11th 2008 at 2:56pm
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