A number of you have written to ask what Ferberizing is, or wonder how it is going. On Question #1: Theoretically, the Ferber Method is an approach that trains babies and toddlers to sleep through the night; parents respond to crying only after increasingly extended stints, eventually teaching the child that it's not worth the effort to exert so much energy for so little reward. Practically, Ferberizing is an excuse parents use to make them feel better about taking time for themselves at the end of the day while their kid screams bloody murder upstairs.
And how's it going? Depends on who you ask. I think okay; despite being in the midst of sprouting his upper front teeth, the Babe has had only limited night wakings in the last few days. Ask Boh, and he might tell you he hopes that I am saving - saving for years and years of the therapy that he will surely need as a result of my neglect.
It's all about interpretation, really.
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