Is the Western way of raising kids weird?

[pandr32]

1. In our house the babies were permitted to sleep with us.

It helped give everyone more peace and more sleep. Not much crying at all. A drawer was used as a crib to the side of the bed until we actually got a crib, and then that stayed bedside, too. We used those when our newborns were growing out of that stage and sleeping more. We made kids' bedrooms fun places with their favorite things and let our growing babies spend some time in them during the day on quilts on the floor with all their toys until they were ready to have the crib moved in. Still, sometimes our kids would want to come back in bed with us and that was fine. A king bed has room.

Each child has their own time schedule.

Dr. James McKenna has some wonderful books out on co-sleeping.