[katiekind]

Shoshoi, your joke about the drafting table made me smile and it also made me think...and when I think, it sometimes leads me to get on my



I don't know if the site is promoting itself as a Christian approach or not. All I can say is the idea of leaving people alone so they can design their own self-calming strategies lacks a major hallmark of following Christ, and that is getting involved with people who are suffering. I hope and pray that more and more Christian parents will see Christian parenting of babies as a ministry, and be encouraged that it's ok to calm your own babies, and be glad you can extend God's love and care to them in that way. Your own flesh and blood should not have to design a strategy to self-calm because no one will come, any more than the man beaten and left for dead in the parable of the good Samaritan should be left a little longer to see if he can design his own strategy for self-woundtending.