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... At what point in this country did we start putting such an outrageous premium on independance? We seem to want small babies to be 'easy' and extremely self - sufficient. Is it because no one has time to parent anymore, or is it because we've forgotten that it's ok (even necessary) to need other people? We see articles and talk show segments every day promoting 'training' six-week-old breastfed babies to sleep through the night; new gadgets that simulate human contact; day care; early weaning - it goes on and on. Is it any wonder that we are becoming a society of angry, addicted and lonely people? It seems to us that the key to solving many of the big, complicated social problems is for parents to be able to devote themselves to the parenting of their children, to raising children who are so full of rightness and self - esteem that as adults they have no need for unhealthy behaviors to fill up the spaces where love should have been (The fussy baby book: parenting your high - need child, from birth to age five, p. 73).

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