Co-sleeping is yet another current parenting practice that privileges the child over the adult. I can level all kinds of charges about how this has created a generation of whining brats. On a more political note, such privileging eerily echoes the way the anti-choice movement consistently values the life of the fetus over the life of the mother. But at bottom, I don t care what the co-sleepers do behind closed doors. I just wish they d stop peeking behind mine.
Children seem to grow up just fine, whether they sleep in a crib or in a family bed.
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