Need a little advice about raising children?
There's plenty out there: comfort them when they cry in the night (or leave them alone). Watch them like hawks (or let them go completely free-range). Breastfeed them (or not).
David Rettew is a child psychiatrist, completely aware of all the conflicting information extant on how to raise a well-adjusted child. He brings together the yin, the yang, and and overview in his book Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows About the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood.
Not surprisingly, the first chapter analyzes what the author calls "the most boring answer in science:" it depends. We get guidance on parental guidance in this chat.