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• 7 Ways to Make Your Baby to Sleep Tonight

  For the first year and a half of his life, your little boy may have gone down with a bottle at a regular time every night. Oh how blessed those days were. But then one day a switch flipped in that slumbering angel and now the little man won’t sleep at all. It’s midnight and Johnny Wired is bounding through the house and yelling like he’s just realized he's rushing for frat. By now, you’ve learned when baby don’t sleep, you don’t sleep. And when you don’t sleep, the earth stands still; zombies rise and walk the earth (and by zombies, we mean you). If you're going to survive you need to come up with a plan. You need to lay some strategery on that kid’s butt. Here are some tactics you can employ.       1)       Wear them out during the day. Take them to the park. Run them hard.    2)       Shorten or cut out the nap. Wait, you’re kid isn’t sleeping at night and you are still giving them a nap? Are you nuts?! Read More... Posted Jul 21 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: baby, child, sleep, kid, routine, pillow, rest, night, storytime, tooth brushing, bed

• Kids Must Sleep Or Pay The Price

  This morning my kid wanted to come with me to my other job (teaching exercise bootcamps--it's basically the opposite of blogging) so I got her up at 5:30 a.m. and off we went. Of course last night she stayed up a little late so my sister could read her two chapters of her latest Lemony Snicket book. And I think the night before that we had family movie screening, so it was a late-ish bedtime. I mean, she has an approximate bedtime, but then there's stuff we wanna do, and when some family members get home late and want to spend some quality moments together, we flex it some, and our morning rising time isn't totally consistent... But what harm can all that do?  Turns out, a hell of a lot. I must tell you I read countless studies and articles on studies and parenting blah blah every day, but this piece from New York magazine is possibly the first to motivate me to dramatically change my priorities. Read More... Posted Oct 09 2007, 08:32 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: research study, school, depression, sleep deprivation, bedtime ritual, overscheduling kids, routine