[NotHereNotThere]

As a parent of multiple children (3+), your comment really rubs me the wrong way.

It comes off as judgemental ("you're doing it wrong", "you really need to learn to"), and you're generalizing your own children's behavior as if it applied to every child.

Every child is different, their sleep cycles, reactivity, personalities, etc.

I'm not even going to comment on the 1-2-3-timeout technique apart from saying I think it's disrespectful towards children; it is basically conditioning them to fear certain words you say and to force them to do something. Isolating them when they "misbehave".

You're free to raise your children how you want, but perhaps be mindful of how you.. "give advice"

[jacobolus]

Moreover, not all parents/families are the same. Some are heavy sleepers, some are light sleepers. Some get to sleep easily, some have difficulty getting to sleep. Some families have everyone on the same schedule, other families have everyone on shifted schedules. Some have generous parental leave or a non-working parent and can devote significant direct time/attention to kids, others are working full time with little parental leave and not much support. Some are extremely relaxed and are unfazed by noise or mess, while others are anxious and have trouble controlling physiological responses to stress. And so on.

[scarejunba]

The frequency of advice-giving usually is inversely proportional to the range of skill available. It's also inversely proportional to the degree to which skill is differentiable.

It's why parenting advice is so common. No one can evaluate parenting skills and exceptional parenting and good parenting don't have that much of a difference between them.

Though I guess poor parenting can be pretty bad with abuse and whatnot, so let's say we exclude the malicious things.

Look at this guy. He saw some limited effect size with a sample size of two and decided he's a guru.