How Much Sleep Do Kids Need

How Much Sleep Do Kids Need

Sleep and Health

You know your kids need sleep. You learned how vital it is to future well being and health. You’ve witnessed how everything gets off track when your kids don’t get enough sleep. Yet so many of us ask ourselves at least once a week “How much sleep do kids need?” Why...
Create New Habits in 2019

Create New Habits in 2019

Bedtime Routine, Parenting, Sleep

Let’s talk about how to create new habits this year. Creating new and better habits can actually simplify our lives. “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.” Horace Mann We all have times in our lives where we intentionally...
Sleeping with your pet

Sleeping with your pet

Family Routines, Sleep and Health

Should you be sleeping with your pet? Have you ever done it before? All night? Just a nap? Do you have a fond (or not-so-fond!) memory of sleeping with your pet? April 11 is National Pet Day. We love our pets and there are times inviting them into our beds is...
Bedtime Rituals: Training for Sleep

Bedtime Rituals: Training for Sleep

Bedtime Routine, Sleep and Health

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....