Sleeping is a big issue for most parents how to deal with it. There's not a lot of good scientific evidence on it. Anglo, Northern European, English society is really the only society that puts children in dark rooms by themselves to try to go to sleep. A couple hundred years ago, this isn't in my book, but I heard this since my book came out. The gin epidemic in London in the 1700s where people were going to bad drug and started rolling out of their children and crushing them.
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.