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Originally Posted by Perna
Children cry themselves to sleep while they are learning to self-soothe themselves to sleep. If they aren't allowed to be unhappy and learn to self-soothe, they have that tough task to learn later. You now have the task of learning to love yourself in such a way that you are not ashamed of your feelings, to love yourself in such a way that you figure out how to soothe your desires (somewhat) rather than to be soothed by another. That takes a period of "crying yourself to sleep".
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There is a school of thought that children should
not be left to cry themselves to sleep.
This may be "normal" in our society, but mothers from Africa and Asia are horrified that we can let this happen.
Western Civilisation leads the world in many areas, but probably not in the quality of our child-rearing.