That would just make the baby scream even more. And of OP did do the music thing they would be the one slapped with disturbance of the peace.

Actually, loud music might help the baby sleep. I do daycare and the 4 month old I have now can only sleep when there is lots going on around her. I have to keep a TV up loud or music or she wakes up. She has two older brothers and lots of other kids running in and out and that's what she's used to. My daughter was the opposite. Quite, classical music and a fan or she was up.

> Tell the parents. .. what, and you think this would be a surprise to them, like they'd suddenly go, "Oh my goodness, our baby is screaming its little head off?? We never had any idea! Thank you for telling us!!". > If it's disturbing your sleep, they have no right to decide that it's okay. They're not deciding anything. At worst the baby is "deciding". The baby might also just be prone to colic and can't help it. You're acting like this is someone's deliberate choice. Chances are that it isn't. > If they continue after that, file a complaint/play the most offensive music you can loud enough to keep them up too. ... you're clearly not a parent or you would never have written this. The OP is being kept awake by screaming happening next door. The parents are at ground zero. You think that loud music will bug them? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! They'll probably welcome it. Anything that cuts through baby screams is good! ... you will, however, irritate the hell out of your other neighbours, and since you are making a choice to be an unpleasant and noisy individual... which means they'll probably call the police or inform the tenant's association and get you thrown out.

Parenthood is a choice and that choice should not affect residents in the building. Move to a house.

#38, "make their child be silent." Hahahahahahahaha! I must have overlooked my daughter's "Silent Mode" button! It's been 7 1/2 years and I still haven't found it. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone ever found mine, either. How about yours?

Seriously! I hope I find my son's quiet mode soon too! I didn't know I could just tell him to be quiet and magically he would stop crying! It's honestly super offensive when someone tries telling someone how to parent ESPECIALLY if you don't have any children of your own. Children cry and that's how it is, you'll understand someday.

I'm pretty sure the kid was mightily impressed by having the cops show up at her doorstep. It might even help more than having her parents tell her to stop a hundred times.

How do you control a baby's crying? I understand you can do the whole feed, walk, and change thing but beyond that there's not much else you can do. Unless you're enforcing the terrible method of throwing water in the kid's face (which is abuse and terrible do not do this).

#37 Wait, throwing water into a babies face is a thing? That's horrible and could even be lethal! At that age their throat closes up upon contact with water to prevent them from drowning. Now, when the water comes as a shock they might be unable to release it again and could suffocate. Also, as far as I know waterboarding is a means of torture. People who do that should have their kids taken away.

It's a thing that I've seen advocated on this sight to lots of positive praise. Now that was a few months ago and the times they are a-changing. Also, yes it is a thing people do, it is incredibly dangerous and it's just all around a terrible thing to do. It's also something that teaches a child to stifle it's emotions.

We are meant to be friends.

Same here.

That solution would work if the baby were four years old, not four months! A four-month-old child isn't even old enough to understand their own existence, let alone try to manipulate their parents.

My nephew is 7 months, and if he is on the floor crying, my brother will leave him and he will stop, then he'll pick him up. But my sister in law will pick him up when he's crying so then he cries when she doesn't give him attention

There's so much BS in your logic that it makes me want to puke. Giving your baby what it needs is not indulgence. It's called parenting. I hope you never have kids. Fantastic. Teach them as a baby that the person they should count on is the one they can least count on.

OverBlossomed - This sort of approach is called "classical conditioning". Are you familiar with Pavlov and his dog? It is that type of conditioning. Experiments have shown that babies as young as 2 months old respond to this type of conditioning (Cox, 2001, "Psychology for A-levels"). As you can see from the source I've provided this is so well documented that it is in a school textbook, and the "cry it out" approach is both sound and valid, and is not in any way abusive. That being said, the "cry it out" approach doesn't mean ignoring your child, it means having a regular and reasonable schedule that sees to your child's needs and allows the child the safety and security of a regular schedule (which has been shown to increase IQ and result in greater later-life confidence) and allows the parents to schedule their own lives so that they can get stuff done... Because (and this is something people seem so quick to forget) while someone who's never had kids may think it is a parent's duty to leap up and grab their child every time they squeak, but if you're a sleep-deprived parent who has been hopping up and down like a flea for 3 weeks straight and averaging 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night ... you're going to make mistakes, and those mistakes might kill the kid. In a study on accidents involving infants lack of sleep was identified as the single biggest contributing factor in infant injuries. Yes, there are some monsters out there who abuse their kids, but there are also a whole lot of well-meaning parents who jump up every time their child cries, and end up dropping their baby on its head. Be smart. Let the kid cry it out and get some sleep yourself. As long as your schedule is reasonable (and you can pick up a dozen baby books that give excellent baby schedules organized by weeks of age) then the baby is in no way suffering or being neglected.

ACTUALLY, baby cries (action) -> baby gets picked up (reaction) -> baby is happy (reward) -> baby is LESS likely to cry in the future because it knows its parents are there to tend to its needs. Please go back into your hole and never ever try to give parenting advice ever again until you either (a): research these things or (b): have a baby yourself

As a mom who wore both of her kids until they could sit comfortably in a shopping cart seat and co-slept until the oldest was (3yo) and the current is still in my bed (2yo), BULL SHIT to CIO, the IQ crap, and being more independent. My oldest is now 9yo and is currently building a small (actual) hoverboard for his science project. My 2yo is independent as all hell. He doesn't want my help for anything. He wants me to SHOW him so he can do it. How well your brain can pick things up is determined at conception. We just expound on that as we go through life. What CIO does do is wire a baby's brain to learn that when he's experiencing a trauma (for him) his carers won't come. He's in pain, no one will help. That is the basis for empathy. That lesson is no longer enforced. Yes, he can learn elsewhere but, the THIS is something huge in his life at an early stage that affects his neural pathways. Also, as a parent, it's not your job to fit your baby to your life. If you want a baby, you fit your life to a baby.

The **** dude.

Or the parents would report the person as a mentally disturbed person or as someone who just low-key threatened their kid.