At the risk of having everything go downhill again, I have to say it is GLORIOUS to finally have a kid who sleeps through the night most of the time. He started having regular 10 hour nights at 27 months, but it was only 3 or 4 nights a week. Now, a year later, after [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘nighttime parenting’
26 June 2009
And the parenting award goes to…
Kid, in a 60 degree house, is intoning, over and over, “I’m hot. I’m hot.”
I just hollered “Stop saying that; I don’t care.” Roll out the red carpet, I know I’ve been nominated.
Come on. He’s wearing shortie jammies, he’s on top of the covers. He’s fine.
And he’s been up no fewer than three times (next [...]
7 May 2009
Dire consequences and desperate measures
A discussion last weekend at the playground with a creative, lovely, and wicked smart lady yielded the following observation: we’re all desperate to protect and justify our choices. After reading Peggy Orenstein’s Flux and The Atlantic Monthly’s article “The Case Against Breast-feeding,” the glaring truth to me is not that one side of each debate [...]
26 January 2009
I *need* 5920 hours of sleep…that’s a medical fact (sort of)
Most scientists agree you can’t make up for lost sleep. But at least one sleep center claims it takes two hours of sleep to replace one lost hour of sleep. (Bear with me. This isn’t the journal Nature. This is my pathetic little writing, ambivalence, parenting, anti-corporate blog and I feel like a little pseudo-science [...]
22 August 2008
Wee hours
Yesterday was a really tough day for Peanut, and though he’s been sleeping much better…wait, I need to address that:
Attention sleepless moms: don’t let the books and the advice fool you. Some kids just don’t sleep until they’re two or three. No matter what you do. They’re just too mentally or physically active to stay [...]
