Comments on: Ninth Carnival of Feminist Parenting

By: Why I don’t believe that sleep training is incompatible with children’s rights « Parenting Myths, Parenting Facts

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:42:02 +0000

[...] A few months ago, one of the featured posts was an anti-sleep training polemic. Just Let Her Cry started out with a fictional first-person tale of an ill and depressed woman shut in her room by her husband every evening when it suited him regardless of whether she was hungry, in pain, or just not tired. The author then drew her analogy between this and controlled crying or other forms of cry-it-out (CIO) sleep training, which she referred to as ‘neglect with a different name’. She claimed, inaccurately but ominously, that scientists everywhere knew the short and long-term consequences of CIO to be ‘vast’, and was scathing in her condemnation of parents who’ve tried sleep training: ‘They aren’t setting out to harm a child, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are. Argue with me all you want. Say “I let my baby cry it out, and he/she is fine”. I don’t believe you. I believe you broke your child like an animal. I believe they gave up. They didn’t magically learn to “self-soothe”, they just figured out that you suck at being a parent at night time.’ This wasn’t a discussion of feminist parenting; this was a no-holds-barred shot in the Mommy Wars. [...]

By: Interesting weekend « Raising My Boychick

Interesting weekend « Raising My Boychick — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:35:25 +0000

[...] Ninth Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up, and as usual has more good reading than I can get to in a month, but I’m going to [...]

By: Dr Sarah

Dr Sarah — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:34:16 +0000

OK, I’ve posted my reply at http://goodenoughmummy.typepad.com/good_enough_mum/2010/05/why-i-dont-believe-that-sleep-training-is-incompatible-with-childrens-rights.html (also submitted as a Carnival entry).

By: Anji

Anji — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:18 +0000

We are advocates of children's rights as well as women's rights and believe the two are very much intertwined. See Ruth's post Smacking Is A Feminist Issue.

By: Dr Sarah

Dr Sarah — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:14:45 +0000

Very belated comment here, sorry. Some great submissions, as always, and fascinating reading. But I have to ask: what the hell has an anti-CIO post got to do with feminism?

By: A crisis of linkspam proportions (5th March, 2010) | Geek Feminism Blog

A crisis of linkspam proportions (5th March, 2010) | Geek Feminism Blog — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:53:24 +0000

[...] the carnivals, you’ll find lots to read at Feminist Carnival #14, Feminist Parenting Carnival #9, Asian Women Carnival #5, Down Under Feminists Carnival [...]

By: Muliercula

Muliercula — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:25:04 +0000

What a fabulous reading list! And thanks for the inclusion of my own humble offering…

By: blue milk

blue milk — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:47:20 +0000

HUGE carnival, nice work.. and thanks for including me.

By: Jake Aryeh Marcus

Jake Aryeh Marcus — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:05:16 +0000

Damn, I missed the deadline again! If I might, I want to add to these important entries on the exploitation of the crisis in Haiti with http://www.sustainablemothering.com/2010/01/31/haiti-hell-good-intentions-and-breast-milk-donations/ .

By: Carnival « Shut Up, Sit Down

Carnival « Shut Up, Sit Down — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:19:48 +0000

[...] Carnival The ninth Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up at Mothers for Women’s Lib – you can find it here. [...]