Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: You know it's cruel... but erratic as well

Other than the heartwrenching instructions to let babies scream for hours (his hint: apply a liberal layer of zinc oxide to baby's bottom so he won't get diaper rash when you don't go to him at night to change his soiled diaper!), this book contradicts itself in several places. In big, bold letters: NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING BABY. Several pages later: Never wake a sleeping baby... UNLESS you are trying to get him on a schedule. Huh? Which is it?Also, this author insists that you should not "allow" a baby to remain awake for more than 2 hours at a stretch. I don't know how you would enforce that edict. ("I command you to sleep now!") If that worked, you wouldn't need this book.If you're a proponent of the crying it out method, I'm sure there are better books. If you want a kinder, gentler method of relating to your baby, try Dr. Sears.