The stuff used for sleeping is as important as the schedules and cribs parents provide.
We’ve been proponents for common sense parenting from the beginning. Yes, the experts change the parenting rule book every year. To swaddle or not to swaddle? The Washington Post now says swaddling babies increases sudden infant death syndrome. Succumbing to the paranoia of parents who saw the Kim Kardashian picture and started to believe to …
From time to time we come across a story that reminds us of the imperfect world in which we live. Recently, a father posted on Reddit his flawed and heroic parenting decision after that father catches his daughter with a naked teenager. The below story is not safe for work (NSFW)! That means he’s got …
It is true there are three kinds of lies – lies, damn lies and infant statistics. I remember the first night when our daughter (she was around 1 year old that time) slept with us on the bed. I didn’t get a decent sleep. Why? It’s because I was afraid that I was going to …
One phrase that we often hear as parents is let your baby “cry it out”. Most of the time when we first become parents we have no idea what that means, or why anyone would even imagine to let their precious one cry. Whether you cry it out or love it out for sleeping, you …
There are so many ways for a baby to sleep, but most parents will choose from one of three ways – full crib, full co-sleep or half-crib and half co-sleep. There are so many reasons that you choose the sleep pattern that you do. However, with three kids and three different ways of teaching them …
Within reason, my young son doesn’t really have a set time he has to go to bed. That’s because I enforce no time for bedtime. It’s just not what he needs. It is true that my situation is different than a lot of people’s. I’m a single mom, so there’s no big hurry to get the …
What’s wrong with raising a lazy child? Nothing! The haters are jealous of our laid back lifestyle. I don’t get parents who preach go-go-go all the time. Doesn’t my son deserve to be lazy and recharge, too? When I say “lazy” I mean letting kids indulge their free, unstructured time to do what they enjoy …
I’m watching my daughter sleep. The ends of her mouth curve upwards and gently back again, as if being controlled by a lazy puppeteer. Her dream, this time, appears to be a good one. She is also sprawled out between her father and me, using his chest as a pillow and kicking me repeatedly in …
My mother warned me not to cut our newborn’s nails – we’re supposed to bite them with our teeth. Evidently, everyone in Ironton, Ohio knows babies grow up to be thieves if you do. But Google found the opposite to be true across the river in Kentucky, where common convictions hold that a baby’s finger …
Here’s a trick that men are woefully inadequate in supplying – a soft breast for your baby’s head. ENTER PILLOWS! Babies naturally want to feel that place of comfort that they know will give them both nurturing and sustenance. By wedging a pillow in just the right spot, your sleeping baby will be lulled into …
A benefit in marriage or a committed relationship is the implied responsibility for both to share the burdens. Women have traditionally relied on formalized bondage in marriage to trap men into contributing to child rearing. Today, men have demonstrated they still do less of the child watching and tending than women, and they often defend …
There are no wrong ways to sleep in on a Saturday morning. There’s only the prospect of child neglect. For parents, a safe sleeping crib is a magic machine in child-rearing because this legal baby cage isolates the little ball of energy, preventing escape while ensuring the safety of the prisoner. In response, children have …
“But won’t my child feel insecure and abandoned if I let him cry it out?” An emphatic NO! to the softies who think babies hold some sort of long-term grudge or sustain everlasting insecurities as a result of tough love. Nurturing parents allow their children to fail, and these parents apply calculated measures to influence …
