Reflection: The Ferber method

       According to Ferber method, the parents teach their child to soothe himself to sleep from the age of 5 to 6 months by using learning principles which is reinforcement schedules. His method applying the fixed interval schedule in which he let the baby cry for every 5 minutes within 3 days until it reaches 25 minutes. Then, for the rest of the day, he will only use 25 minutes for mother to come to the baby.

       Regarding to this method, we will use it to our baby because this method seems workable and practical. Moreover, every mother can practice and apply this method. For example, we will let the baby cry for 10 minutes every time they cry before we feed and comfort the baby. The baby become used with this routine and the baby will not much depending to the mother anymore before getting sleep.

      To sum up, in raising the baby, the mother should apply the learning principle in order to educate the baby to become less dependent to their parents. This is also will ease the parents to do their daily routines.