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cry it out en · VERB
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Of a baby: to be left alone to cry until falling asleep (recommended in some approaches to parenting).
The same rules for maintaining sleep should be used for autistic children as for typical children—short interventions that are not repeated, and a period in which the child “cries it out.”
2007, Bryna Siegel, Helping Children with Autism Learn:Clearly, crying it out is too brutal, and no-cry sleep solutions are too slow; the only ideal way to deal with sleep problems is to avoid them in the first place.
2010, Cathryn Tobin, The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan:
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