there was something that she could never tell her American teachers

here is yet another example of how gurus peddle their thoughts as pure wisdom and, worse, how we the gullible public take their opinions as the final word simply because their book says so. this is esp so in the case of books on newborns, infant and toddlers. at least, the "SLEEP NAZI" is willing to roll his ideas over to say he could have been wrong. it might be okay to have the kid in the same bed after all! the family bed could turn out to be an acceptable phenomenon during our lifetime, with parents being encouraged to "bond" with their kids by co-sleeping. a simple statistical proof that Richard Ferber was not right (not the same as saying he was wrong - there is no evidence to prove it either way) in condemning co-sleeping is that in many poor countries parents have no choice but to co-sleep with their kids. this does not seem to have had any adverse effect on the kids.

btw, Mitra Kalita is an author on one or two books abt American desis. i met her a couple of years back at a book reading.