Forgive me, this is just a totally random CG thought….

This is in NO way a negative for parents who use this method (I guess it’s called a method?) and whatever works, to each his own I say! But the phrase ‘self-soothe’ simply makes me chuckle every-time-I-hear-it. I don’t know why. I don’t remember that phrase while raising my three, I was either too sappy to put them down, or we’d give up and say ‘they just gotta cry it out!’ and there was nothing soothing about that for us or them, lol. But this is about the term not the methods.

Tonight I heard the phrase self-soothe again, I smiled, and thought wait! If we decide to eat a cone of ice cream , couldn’t we consider that self-soothing rather than over-indulging? Or taking a nap, definitely self-soothing and sounds so therapeutic! Or even having a glass of wine, “I’m self-soothing”… remember that on your next girls night out, lol. I mean we often indulge in things like that to soothe our nerves after a stressful day, to just chill out, and they do soothe better crying …. just sayin’.

Off to self-soothe myself right on off to bedtime!

Tracey