Is anyone getting enough (sleep)? Not if you’re the parent of young children, it seems. I have a friend who has a teething 10-month-old. She’s not sleeping much these days. Neither is another friend, whose 4-year-old daughter wakes up at night wanting to crawl into bed with her mom and dad. At my house, I have become “a reluctant co-sleeper,” a term that cropped up in a New York Times article last year about the family bed. I didn’t listen to some of my friends who advised against sleeping together. It was so convenient when they were little, but now that they’re 4 and 1 ½, my husband and I are running out of room in our queen-size bed/Virginia de Leon, Parents Council. More here
Question: Are you getting enough sleep? Any advice on how to get children to sleep through the night?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
parent of young children, it seems. I have a friend who has a teething 10-month-old. She’s not sleeping much these days. Neither is another friend, whose 4-year-old daughter wakes up at night wanting to crawl into bed with her mom and dad. At my house, I have become “a reluctant co-sleeper,” a term that cropped up in a New York Times article last year about the family bed. I didn’t listen to some of my friends who advised against sleeping together. It was so convenient when they were little, but now that they’re 4 and 1 ½, my husband and I are running out of room in our queen-size bed/Virginia de Leon, Parents Council. More here
