Vovin, > First step is learning to disassociate oneself from > it so that it doesn't obstruct. The screaming infant may then silence on its own and maybe learn a thing or two, or it may not. Eventually it must, so why bother with it. I think this may be a mistake. Like begets like. A single compromise holds the seed to a thousand compromises. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance-- there is an esoteric meaning to this. Why *must* the infant eventually silence itself? mj