Michael Pearl, "To Train Up A Child", and Corporal Punishment

[moriah]

4. That nine-year-old certainly proves it.

I'm horrified to think of what she has done since, if she had the care of any child, but especially a baby.

Babies cry. That's just part of being a parent. Even at 10 months, if they're fussy they may cry no matter if you put them down in their crib, pick them up and hold them while they kick and scream and do cartwheels in your arms, whatever. If you can figure out why they're fussy, that's the only way to make it stop. And even then, sometimes it's not something you can fix -- they might be missing their daddy, the Ambesol might not be working, the simethicone may not be working....

You just deal with it the best you can, until they calm down. If you have to put them down and go into another room, do it.

Don't beat them into "submission". (Or shake them, the only thing I think the Pearls managed NOT to recommend.)