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As far as I’m concerned, the best part about summer break is not having to set the alarm clock each night. I hate to get up early and my kid feels the same way. In fact, no matter what time she goes to bed, she will stay there until I drag her out. During the summer months, this usually happens around 10 or 11 am. But while her love of sleeping is certainly a blessing during the lazy days of July and August, it’s a problem once September rolls around.
She starts fourth grade in a few weeks and I am already dreading the change in schedule. Not just hers, but mine too. Because while she’s been sleeping in for the past few months, so have I. So as we gear up for another year of school, it’s time to start thinking about how to get us both back on track. Here are some tips from Jill Spivack, LCSW, a contributor at MomLogic. Continue reading »
An extra half hour of sleep may not seem like much, but for the 200 students who participated in an experiment that pushed back the start time of school by that much, those extra thirty minutes of shut-eye made a huge difference. Continue reading »
In what has got to be the cutest scientific experiment you’ll read about today, researchers at the University of Florida have found that when newborn babies are getting their daily 16 to 18 hours of shuteye, they are not as zoned out as they appear to be. In fact, under the right circumstances, they could actually be learning. Continue reading »
If your kids are at all like mine, getting them out of bed on a school day can be like pulling teeth — in fact, you’d think you were dragging them off to have their teeth pulled, the way they fight getting up. I suspect it’s only going to get worse once they become teenagers. But if the results a British high school has seen are typical, then one simple change would pretty much make the problem go away.
No one is slamming pot here. Not today. Maybe pot’s not my thing, but I’m no narc. I’m no Agent of D.A.R.E. (but I so want to drive that van). So I bring you this story not as a condemnation of marijuana use, but maybe just a reminder that we should all have fun responsibility.
So when I tell you a 2-year-girl was found wandering around pantsless with her dad’s glass pipe in her toy purse, understand I don’t automatically blame pot. I blame the dad. Did I mention the daughter was also carrying an empty bottle of pain pills and the family rabbit?
Most pediatric experts like to discourage parents from co-sleeping with their children. They say it’s unsafe: the bedding is a suffocation risk. The kid could fall off the bed or become trapped between the edge and the wall. A crib, they insist, is the best place for a baby to sleep.
Still, what’s more soothing than nodding off next to your warm and loving Mom or Dad?
Bringing together the best of both worlds are crib co-sleepers.
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A recent UK study published in the British Medical Journal found that among 80 cases of SIDS studied, 54 percent happened while co-sleeping with an adult, a finding similar to other co-sleeping studies. But they also found that a large percentage of their control group were also co-sleeping, and none of them had died of SIDS. So they dug a little deeper. Continue reading »
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