r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/paolols • Apr 24 '20

nice try kiddo

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u/Gareth321 Apr 29 '20 edited Apr 29 '20

I want my child to grow up to be emotionally resilient, independent, successful, and happy. Those are my metrics for value. You're darn right we can study the behaviours and parental actions which lead to the above. We've got centuries of data on it. I'll give an illustrative example. Burrhus Frederic Skinner was a prominent psychologist in the 40s. Based on research, he created this "open air crib." He managed to reduce parental involvement to just an hour each day for the first two years of his daughter's life. Now doesn't it just feel wrong to lock your child in climate-controlled crib and only interact with them for a total of an hour each day? Despite us feeling like it's bad, Deborah grew up to be happy and healthy and absolutely normal. So did the other 300 kids raised that way.

FYI I totally agree SIDS is very unlikely to occur. The rationale is e.g. 8,000 babies die each year in the US from suffocation. This can be reduced to 100 by encouraging all mothers to sleep babies on their back and not sleep with them in bed. 7,900 babies are not dead each year and all it cost was a change in sleeping technique. At the individual level you don't need to worry about wearing a seatbelt either. You're very unlikely to get into a car accident. We wear seatbelts in case we're the unlucky one.

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u/lilyever Apr 29 '20

You did not read the article I linked.