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We are huge fans of the early bedtime in our home. It came about naturally for us after a trip to Scotland when Crumb was 3 months old. He had been going to bed around 10 PM like many newborns and when we came home due to the time change, he wanted to go to […]

Jackson has always been a pretty fantastic sleeper. He’s loved to sleep from the time he was a very tiny baby, and he blew through the majority of the major sleep regressions without too much trouble. Of course, the flip side of having a kid who has high sleep needs is that when he’s deprived of […]

I last shared the ups and downs of Miss H’s transition to a twin bed. Overall, she’s doing really, really well! But she does have a tendency to stall at bedtime. And she does ask sometimes to sleep in our bed, or have us lay in her bed for a really, really long time. Teaching […]

Questions I started asking Miss H a while back were, “Where do you sleep?”, “Where does mommy sleep?” and “Where does daddy sleep?” I jokingly say it’s the best thing I could have ever taught her! With so many families of young children struggling with sleep, children who want to sleep in the parents’ bed, crying […]

Last night, my 2.5 year old son threw a tantrum the likes of which we’d never experienced with him. Ever. From around 7:00 PM when we tried to start his bedtime routine, until 8:05 PM when he finally settled down while his daddy read him a book, he raged. He jumped up and down. He […]

We do a lot of reading here, and bedtime is no different. Drake has many books but we usually end up reading many of the same ones over and over before we move on. Recently the books Drake seems most attached to and wants read to him all have to deal with bedtime, so I […]

Once upon a time, Charlie’s bedtime routine took 30-45 minutes and all was right with the world. We would give him a bath, change him into his sleep sack, read him some books, and put him in his crib awake.  Then we’d leave the room and he’d put himself to sleep.  I completely took it […]