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Thank you for your opinion. I doubt if forwarding it to my son and his wife, who have raised ten children very successfully on the plan I described, will make much difference for them except as a source of humor. The regulated daily schedule that doesn't involve the parents being obedient to the children's whimsey has worked very well for them, as compared to the results of the families of their siblings who essentially employed yours.

On a regular schedule, the child may have all the required nourishment needed at the established time for dispensing it. Whole armies function on the basis of scheduled activities, mess time included. Your hypothesis of what adults do when they are "hungry" simply would not work in the office, the factory, or wherever personal discipline supersedes self-gratification as the governing operational principle of fulfilling the conditions of employment.

Your argument here won't hold water where self-control is necessary for people to get along with each other, and I refuse any further debate about this issue. Do whatever you want in your home, but somewhere along the line take an inventory to determine whether it fosters family unity and personal maturity to the degree you were hoping for.

You said infant, not child.

There’s a difference and if you or your kids don’t see that then nobody can help you.

As far as having raised them “successfully”, that remains to be seen.

Thank you for your opinion. I doubt if forwarding it to my son and his wife, who have raised ten children very successfully on the plan I described, will make much difference for them except as a source of humor.

Then you are a mocker who raised mockers.

Duly noted.

People have killed children through this feeding schedule crap. Starved them to death.

There's a world of difference between an infant crying form hunger and a toddler pitching a temper tantrum to have their own way.

If you can't see that, then I question your ability to parent.

And I cannot imagine the callousness of a parent who would let an infant scream in hunger just to fit their convenience.

And what if the child isn't hungry when it's time to eat? What do you do? Shove the food down their throats and force them to eat to show them who's boss?

Yeah, that'll teach them who's in charge alright.

And if they get hungry early, you let them scream for 2-3 hours?

All you are teaching that infant is that its' parents cannot be trusted to meet its needs.

Do you change them on a schedule, too? Ooops, you pooped 2 hours before your scheduled changing. Too bad for you. Lay in your own filth. That'll show you who's in charge around here.