You know how you feel when you haven’t slept? You’re irritable. And chances are you probably feel as if the world is against you. There’s good reason for that.

New research has determined that sleep, and specifically dreams, are key to processing emotions. A study in which volunteers who had napped with rapid eye movement (REM) found that they were “better able to identify expressions of positive emotions like happiness in other people, compared with participants who did not achieve REM sleep or did not nap at all.”
In other words, a lack of sleep puts us on …read more

Let’s talk about the idea of family bed sharing. Is it a means to forming strong family bonds or a way to ensure that kids will never sleep in their own beds without a struggle?
In our house, the rule of thumb is that once the kids are weaned to a bottle, they are expected to sleep in their own rooms. The parent’s bed is only for the parents. This, in part, is due to the fact that my husband has serious back problems and cannot bear to sleep in compromising positions. We also share the belief that our bed is the place where we …read more