you guys rock!

Somehow it's so much more reassuring to hear "do what works" from other people than it is to believe it yourself, iykwim.

I'm so anti the whole CIO approach, even more so after reading "The Science of Parenting" - which basically says that CIO has a permanent, detrimental effect on their psychological development.

We will keep trying to figure out what he needs, and hope that it's 'just a phase'