cry it out

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cry it out

verb cries it out · crying it out · cried it out

Of a baby: to be left alone to cry until falling asleep (recommended in some approaches to parenting). The same rules for maintaining sleep should be used for autistic children as for typical children—short interventions that are not repeated, and a period in which the child “cries it out.”

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@misc{cry_it_out_2026,
  title = {cry it out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cry%20it%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}