When do we lose the childlike ability to sleep through just about anything? Somewhere along the way in our journey to adulthood, we make the choice to stop giving ourselves fully to sleep. We refuse to let go of a partial sense of awareness even in the midst of our deepest sleep cycle.

I’m wondering about this today because the difference between the way I sleep and the way my children sleep was highlighted by circumstance last night. Electric, my four-year old son’s pet hamster, managed to chew his way from his plastic cage and make his way into the…

I hear the piercing screams of my daughter through the speaker of her monitor.  She is sitting up in her crib, and something is really bothering her.  What can it be?

This happens a couple of nights a month for us.  The moment we go in there and hold her, she stops.  However, her face is soaked with tears, and she is struggling to catch her breath from all the screaming.  After rocking her for a few moments, her eyelids begin to shut ever so slowly until she is once again dreaming of whatever babies dream about.

She is most likely…

Every new parent can respect and appreciate the value of getting your child on a set schedule.  When you have a pretty good idea of when she will nap and sleep each day, life gets much easier.  What happens when you get a wrench tossed into the gears?

My wife and I have our daughter on a pretty good schedule.  She eats within the same hour windows each day and even naps within a specified time frame.  She has done this since the first month.  My wife is awesome about getting her just right.  We even have some wiggle room…

“Wah, Wah, Wah!” are the sounds flooding the baby monitor as we jump from the bed at 1 am.  I rush into the bedroom to find her fast asleep but crying frantically.  I pick her up and rock her, check her diaper and nothing gives.  Finally, I give her a pacifier and she is off to dreamland once again.

After a couple of nights of doing this, my wife and I decided enough is enough.  Our daughter has become a pacifier junkie.  We had gotten her so used to taking naps with it, that she would wake up in the night…

My last article for this site was titled, I NEED that! I have discovered one luxury item we have that we actually could not live without.  You guessed it, the Graco Sweetpeace Soothing Center.

This beauty is a modern day design for the traditional swing.  Instead of the back and forth motion offered in the old styles, the Sweetpeace allows for multiple swinging sensations for your baby.  You can face the seat outwards and do a side to side motion.  The seat also can be turned horizontally in either direction to get the back and forth feel.  Basically, your…