(Editor’s note: please welcome Jack with suggestions for making baby’s room safe and conducive to sleeping. Thanks, Jack!) A new born baby is one of life’s true precious gifts. New parents never get bored of showing off the latest addition to the family; however it isn’t all plain sailing in the preceding months. There is [...]

My children at bedtime are kind of like those plates that entertainers spin on poles.  The difference is they want to keep spinning madly, while I want them to crash* to the ground. *by crash, I mean GO TO SLEEP.  Earnest Parenting: help for parents whose children are still awake.

A memory from 2006 Captain Earthquake has been waking up at night. Okay, well, he wakes up every night, multiple times. He comes and gets me to tuck him back in. Sometimes its once a night, rarely he sleeps through, and often it’s multiple wake ups. Several nights ago I could not sleep so I [...]