:/ My mom job leads to a lot of clingy babies coming to her and they cry for like 1month for their parents. and then they get used to it! Unless of course if the parents keep giving in then it lasts for like.... years . So he will probably too if you can ignore the crying!

Omg. My brother was opposite to me. He cried significantly less than I did and when he was a toddler, the only time he did cry was when I forced him into a tight space and have him take a photo with me.

He was very uninterested in other people but he liked breaking my dolls ._.
He just played Nintendo 64 games whilst sucking a dummy/drinking from a bottle up until he was 8. He barely talked and I remember him having to redo kindergarten because they couldn't get a word out of him. All he did was nod or shake his head.

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I understand that o-o Ezra is EXACTLY how I was when I was young. Umm, I recommend not feeling so bad and just trying to get what you need done. Growing up, I feel really terrible that my mother missed opportunities for herself because of something I don't remember doing as a bratty child that didn't understand anything. He's probably just really attention seeking and needy like 'everyone please pay attention to me. I know if I cry or hit you, you will stop what you're doing and look at me or speak to me." Try disciplining him and leaving him to cry for a little while otherwise he'll cling for years to come.

If it helps, for my baby cousin, at around 1 years old he kept making me hold him. When I put him down he'd start whinging so I just walk away or say, "NO! Don't," and make sure my face looks really cross.

@Po- that sounds like my brother o.O

I don't think it's abuse. It's discipline. No one has time to pay attention to a baby 24/7 just because it's crying for attention. Maybe don't straight up ignore him but talk to him even if he doesn't understand. If you repeat the same strings a lot maybe he'll understand that crying gets him no where.
So like, Ezra cries, face him and be like, "Ezra, NO! Don't cry for attention like that." When he's being good and stops crying maybe you can reward him with like those bread sticks you give teething babies or play with him or watch cartoons with him. There must be something that'll work.

Yea I think cry it out is the best techhnique :/ no one babies any babies in our family xD Poor babies.

Its not abuse at all. its teaching them things xD I was pretty much writing was po just wrote!