In a study published in the journal Pediatrics this week [1], an Australian research group found no evidence of harm in kids that were sleep-trained, 5 years after the fact. This is the longest follow-up study of sleep training to ever be published, and it’s a randomized controlled trial no less.

Not surprisingly, the media has jumped all over this study with headlines like this one from the Huffington Post: “Baby Sleep Training Methods Safe For Infants.” (The best part about that article is that, below it, there is a link to another HuffPo article from last December entitled, “Cry It Out: The Method That Kills Baby Brain Cells.” That’s a great demonstration of how much the media loves this story and why parents are probably sick of hearing judgment on it either way.)

Parents – particularly those of us who sleep-trained our kids and enjoyed…