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1 Do You Know Your Parenting Philosophies?
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2 Two Methods For Training Baby to Sleep
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3 A Sleep Doctor's War of Words
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4 Do You Believe Parents Can Influence Babies' Sleep Habits?
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5 Parents Turn Sleep Training Over to the Experts
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6 OnSugar Blog: Catching Flak for Catching Zzzz's
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7 Lil Community: Is Crying It Out Really That Bad?
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8 Early Risers: Clocks That Teach Tots to Stay in Bed
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9 The (No) Sleep Diaries: Not Getting Any? Me Neither.
Sleep that is. But like sex, when you’re not getting enough, it’s all you can think about, because, duh, sleep is important! There's a reason forcing people to stay awake is classified as a torture technique. We know newborns wake constantly, needing to be fed and changed. We're prepared for a few months of pure exhaustion. But when those months turn into years, life can get pretty Read more
The early bird catches the worm, but he also wakes mama up way too soon! Once tots have graduated out of their cribs, negotiating with them to stay in bed until a reasonable hour can seem as difficult as the Middle East peace talks. When begging and pleading aren't working, turn to some fun clocks designed to teach them a proper waking hour. These seven clocks will get the job done, and give mom Read more
To train or not. This post was submitted by an Anonymous reader in the A Place to Vent group. My 1 year old has not slept through the night since he was born. Though he goes to bed at a decent time (8 PM) he wakes around 3 AM every night. I've held him, rocked him, tried just rubbing his back, and more, but the only way I can calm him down is with a bottle. Our doctor suggested just letting him Read more
Lots of moms think out loud, and Jo Aaron does too. Catching Flak for Catching Zzzz's comes from the Mommy Brain blog on OnSugar. My son is 2. When he was 4-months, he gave up his 3 AM bottle, went to sleep at 7 PM and woke up around 7 AM. By 12 months, he was sleeping even later in the morning. He'd wake up around 8 AM and go back down for his morning nap at 9 AM for two hours. After a Read more
How far would you go to get a decent night's sleep? Parents of newborns might say they are willing to give their right arm to get their lil one to sleep through the night, but many are actually spending up to $800 to have a sleep consultant help them through 3 a.m. wakings. According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, sleep trainers are in high demand, despite the lagging economy. The reporter Read more
Some parents would give their right arm just to get their lil one to sleep through the night. They read books, consult the web, and even hire trainers to come in and coach their nocturnal tykes. While there are various philosophies when it comes to coaching your wee one to sleep through the night, Dr. Richard Ferber's self-soothing techniques continue to prevail among sleep-deprived parents. A Read more
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. If only those phrases were all it took to put baby down. Getting a newborn to sleep through the night is one of the most talked about issues in infant care. Parents become fiercely supportive of their chosen sleep training method and its guru. Marc Weissbluth, one of the nation's most popular pediatricians and author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Read more
When baby sleeps through the night for the first time in his life, it is a milestone to be celebrated by the whole family and perhaps, the neighbors! The lucky experience this momentous occasion early in infancy while other mums are dragged through the torture of sleepless nights into toddlerhood. Parents desperate to get a full night's rest may resort to sleep training to get baby on a lengthy Read more
Parenting books can be overwhelming as everyone has a different opinion on how to best raise baby. One suggests holding your baby all the time and another says that will spoil him. Some advocate co-sleeping and others says it's a big mistake. Since there are so many philosophies to choose from, we want to know how much you know about the subject! Source Take the Quiz Read more
Tom Cruise chatted with Playboy about his new movie Rock of Ages, but the conversation between the actor and interviewer Michael Fleming got quite personal. No stranger to promoting movies, Tom is happy to discuss his career and ambitions, but rarely talks about his childhood. However, in Playboy, Tom gave a great deal of insight about growing up with his mom and sisters, but not his dad. Tom Read more
