I have no will power when it comes to crying!
I have no will power when it comes to crying!
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
I'm very good. Well, it appears that way but I'm dying on the inside. But I have to be strong because no one else around me is!
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
honestly if we didn't have neighbors, i would let the kids cry WAY more. it doesn't bother me that much up to 20 minutes, and i'm used to it now.
but we have an older neighbor upstairs who doesn't believe in cio, so it's hard to let them cry esp in the middle of the night because she can hear it.
i would have sleep trained much earlier if we lived in a house!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
Depends on the cry! haha. He has many different cries - if he cries his hurt, rejected or in pain cry I can never ignore him! But if he cries his I want attention, fighting sleep or angry/tantrum cry it's a lot easier to ignore. But this is very recent haha! I could never ignore him before. When I was sleep training I would sit in my room or office and cry listening to him!
pomegranate / 3053 posts
I'm a pro at it now. Sometimes both are crying at the same time and I will have to get to who needs me the most and if it's my oldest needing to pee/poop then he comes first. It's tough, though and it was definitely hard when I had to CIO my oldest.
cantaloupe / 6610 posts
No way! DH is all about trying to see if she'll soothe herself and stop crying and I break down a few mins in and run to her. I kind of don't care about spoiling her. As long as I don't have to watch her be totally heartbroken over something!
Her heartbreak = My heartbreak
pomegranate / 3890 posts
Nope I suck At it. Lol. I can't listen to him cry. It breaks my heart and frys my nerves. He doesn't cry a lot so when he does something is wrong
coconut / 8279 posts
Nope. I can't let him cry. Whine? Yep, I let him whine but if it involves tears it's because he doesn't feel well or something's wrong, so I never let him cry. He's never been much of a crier.
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
After four kids I am finally getting better at it. I think it gets easier as the kids get older. When my four year old is throwing a temper tantrum I can totally ignore it. When my youngest is sad and crying its a little harder
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
I let her cry a few minutes at a time, but no more than 2-3.
persimmon / 1341 posts
Crying doesn't phase me at all unless I'm in a pubic setting where it bothers other people. My husband and I generally narrate her cries and laugh about it. Sometimes when we're driving we forget she's even crying until we realize she stopped at some point.
It really, really doesn't bother me when older kids cry. I was a teacher before having our daughter so I dealt with a lot of kids crying when they were mad or got in trouble. Crying gets you nowhere with me. Obviously my 4 month old crying doesn't have quite the same effect but if I have something I need to do, I do it and tend to her.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
I agree it depends on the age and the cry. Newborn through 4 months, I didn't let her cry at all. As she got older, she learned to whine vs cry etc so I will ignore a whine if she is fighting sleep for instance. It gets easier to pick out what is real and what isn't.
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