Are you making plans for the new year?
I’m not a big fan of resolutions, per se, but…I am a believer in making plans and taking steps to achieve them.
My list is coming along and I’ll be sharing it with you in the next few days. Stay tuned!
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McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant is sponsoring a really cool Father’s Day giveaway.
You can find the details here.
The restaurant’s PR firm contacted me (and some other daddy-bloggers) a few weeks ago to see if I’d be interested in a contest. Contest? Heck yes, I’m interested!
The winning dad will receive twelve dinner-for-two gift certificates! And..as a contestant, I get to give away a $50.00 gift certificate here on the blog. How cool is that?
That’s it! Pretty easy, huh?
I will hold a random drawing of all the folks that left comments once the official Deserving Dads contest is over (around June 20th). The winner will receive the $50 gift certificate by mail.
Tweet about it and post a Facebook comment too, would you? I will sure appreciate your support.
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Both my boys (now sixteen and soon-to-be eleven) had a difficult time getting to sleep when they were younger. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago that my youngest was able to get to sleep on his own.
Before that, he needed (wanted?) someone to sleep with him. At least until he got to sleep. We referred to this as ‘starting him off’. Many times ‘starting him off’ became an all night deal and either I or my wife ended up in his bed all night.
I know there are those parents who allowed their newborns to cry themselves to sleep. That wasn’t us. We couldn’t do that. And while it’s not a great situation when your kid is begging you to ‘start him off’, there comes a time when you simply give in and do it.
It’s late. He needs to get to sleep. We need to get to sleep. My wife and I tried lots of things to get Matt to sleep on his own. We bought special night lights for his room. We even redecorated his room to make it more “his space” thinking that would do it.
Nope. That didn’t work. We told him we were just a few feet down the hall. He had nothing to be afraid of. That didn’t work either.
There were many times when we gave up and helped him get to sleep.
Did we do the right thing? I’m not sure. I’m very happy that he’s able to get to sleep on his own now. It’s better for him and much better for my wife and me.
Here’s some interesting information I found on the Good Morning America website:
It’s incredibly common,” Jennifer Waldburger, a family sleep therapist from Sleepy Planet, told Good Morning America. ”So many families struggle with this and it’s kind of one of those really well-kept secrets nobody talks about.”
According to Waldburger, despite how much kids may want to sleep with their parents, quality of sleep for both the parents and kids can be affected for the worse.
“Kids really need to have that sleep in their bodies to have enough energy to make it through the day and to think smart thoughts and grow properly,” Waldburger said.
I did some more online research and here’s what Kidshealth.org has to say about it.
Have you gone through this phase with a child? What worked? What didn’t?
Please post a comment.
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