Holidays, Health, & Getting the Kids to Sleep
It's easy to have your family routines derailed during the holidays. Unless we’re careful, our family health can be compromised. Beginning around Thanksgiving in the United States and continuing until January 2nd, we enjoy the company of family, friends, and...
Too Sensitive
Can we embrace being “too sensitive” as a strength in children? Maybe the world we be a better place if we embraced our unique differences.
Back-to-School: The Family Media Plan
Back-to-school is officially a “season”. Depending on where you live in the United States, it starts in early August and ends around the third week of September. At some point, take the time to plan out how your family uses media. Back-to-School sort of reads like a...
Parenting Priority Tonight: Bedtime
Before you finish reading this, set this intention: tonight’s the night you’ll make bedtime your parenting priority. All good things wtill follow…and here’s why.
Sleep and Vacation
Whenever I’m on vacation, I lose sleep over these two things: • If I sleep to get back in sync with the local time, I miss the local vacation experience. • If I force myself to stay awake and not sleep, I’m bad company PLUS miss the local vacation experience....
Bedtime Rituals: Training for Sleep
Who would have thought that we’d have to go into “training” for a good night’s sleep? But in the twenty-first Century, when we are overwhelmed with electronics and subtle, incessant stressors, sleep is one of those necessities for which we have to go into training....
Managing Bedtime Curtain Calls
There’s nothing charming about bedtime curtain calls. Not for parents. Not for caregivers. When bedtime curtain calls begin, they’re not an opportunity for a parent to applaud a child for a job well done, or for some spontaneous expression of that child’s unique...
Toddler Bedtime Battles – It’s Evolutionary
During a get-together with some moms the other day, we started talking about Toddler Bedtime Battles. The discussion started with the potty training skirmishes and then we moved on to bedtime battles. One mom said her daughter was potty trained quickly during warm...
Spare Change?
Got some spare change? I’m not talking about the spare change between those sofa cushions. The spare change I’m talking about comes from you: changing your mind. Changing your mind is the first step in changing your life. It is foundational. And right after we change...
Shakespeare and Sleep
William Shakespeare’s birthday celebration is Saturday, April 23. We know Shakespeare was born in April, we’re just not absolutely certain of the exact date. We do know that his baptism is recorded as April 26, 1564. In one of those eerie historical synchronicities,...