[blparent] "scream it out" method

[Barbara Hammel]

Okay, I don't want to hear from you if you disapprove of this method.  What I do want to hear is how is it supposed to work.
One of my twins had swimmer's ear so we sat with him a few nights--and went to him during the nights--because we knew he was hurting and wanted to comfort him.  Now he expects us to sit with him every night and wakes two to three times during the night and expects us to sit with him, sometimes for 3 hours and sometimes only fifty minutes, till he goes back to sleep.  Consequetly, no one is getting sleep.
For those of you who are new, I have autistic, blind eight-year-old twins adopted from China five years ago.  This is the more advanced one who functions around a three- to four-year-old level.
Barbara

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