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Whether co-sleeping traditions harm or help your child

My son is seven and still sleeps in our bed most nights and my American friends think it is unhealthy but this is how I was raised and he feels safe.

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The parent questions ancestral practices when surrounded by different cultural messages about proper child development and independence.

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