Parenting Myths People Have Believed for Decades

Babies only cry because they’re tired, hungry, sick, or injured

While it’s nice to believe that there’s a magical checklist of things that could be making your baby cry, that’s rarely the case. “Babies will cry randomly over a lot of different things and a lot of the time, you can’t find out why they’re crying,” Posner says. “Sometimes they just cry for no reason that you can really explain.”