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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Discipline!!?? Please read "Good inside" by Dr. Becky Kennedy. [/quote]

Please do NOT read Dr Becky Kennedy. She has zero grounding in evidence-based therapies for child behavior. [/quote]

Right. Her advice on an issue like this is pointless. Are you supposed to empathize and support the toddler crying for the entire three hours while remaining perfectly calm?

Maybe if you had a lot of valium lol, but that would cause other problems for moms.

OP, I tell my kid that if can't stop crying it must be bedtime. Ain't nobody got time for that. I'm also the OP of the Alloparenting thread in General Parenting. [/quote]

Haha I commented a lot on that thread! You can probably find my comments now based on this thread.

Yes, Dr. Becky, Lansbury et al are all about being calm and ignoring this stuff. My whole point is, I can’t! I’m never sure whether they don’t believe kids as extreme as mine exist or whether they think parents can actually calmly handle the amount of crying and screaming mine does. I fully admit I’m the problem and I just cannot take it. In practical terms, are you really supposed to ignore a crying toddler for 3 hours while occasionally getting down to their level to interject calm, empathetic words about how they are feeling? Because I have tried this! Multiple times. By the end I felt like I’d run a marathon and needed to cry myself from the stress. Oh, and my daughter never stopped crying or self regulated. I eventually distracted her.[/quote]

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