Ferberizing
n.— «Even Dr. Richard Ferber of Children’s Hospital Boston—so strongly linked in the popular imagination with the so-called cry-it-out method that it has come to be known as “Ferberizing”—agreed in an interview that no single approach worked for all children.» —“For Getting Baby to Sleep, Sticking to a Plan Is What Counts” by Dan Hurley New York Times Dec. 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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