Part 1: Why is Crying Taboo? (there is a reason behind every cry)

Can you think of a baby, or visualize a baby—your baby, yourself when you were a baby, a random baby, or even an imaginary baby—without peripherally preparing to hear crying at some point? Babies and crying are linked.

How do you feel when you read the words below?

“The baby is crying.” (now close your eyes for a few seconds)

Did you notice, unless you were cheating and didn’t believe the words, that you felt something inside yourself suggesting, “Something must be done”?

When you hear a baby cry, something in your brain, or perhaps your heart, or perhaps both, urges you to do something. You felt that, right? You read the line, “the baby is crying,” and a part of you felt, “oh shit, something must be done!”

You can’t hang out in the Kingdom of the Baby without the ability to understand and be with crying. Yet crying from a baby is the most irritating sound a human being can hear. How are parents or baby practitioners supposed to deal with this?

Come find out.