TikTok has reignited the debate around sleep training—leading to politically charged debates. Sleep training or the lack thereof has been debated for decades, but after one Millennial mom on TikTok shared how putting a baby down to sleep in a crib is comparable to locking them in a prison, the topic has been flooding social media. Within Facebook parenting groups, Reddit threads, and now TikTok hashtags like #GentleParenting (2.5B views) and #SleepTraining (218.1M views), conversation around sleep has a tendency to evolve into broader topics like marriage, feminism, and politics. “Some gentle-sleep influencers argue that American parents are victims of a relentlessly capitalist society that devalues them — especially mothers.” What’s uniting Millennial parents is the desire for both their baby’s and their own sleep. One global study shows that 96% of parents say “they wanted to change something about their kid’s sleep.” What is proving to work for them is consistency: “choosing a method [they] think will work for [them] and then sticking with it.” (The Cut)
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