I try not to court controversy because I don't actually see parenting as all that controversial. A wide range of parenting decisions are totally OK and there are many approaches that can work like ...
CIO
Who Else Wants to Know the Best Time for CIO?
Nobody is driving down the baby sleep road, looking at their finely detailed baby sleep map, saying, "Well, it looks like we've missed the turn off into Putdownawake-port so in the next 4-6 weeks ...
Her Story, Your Story, A Study in Sleep Training Part I
[box type="blank" align="center" class="border-dashed2"] This could have been you. Or me. I got this email a few days ago. This isn't a success story (yet) but it really spoke to me. It so ...
How to Cry it Out: The Bedtime Edition
Update: It's been ~5 years since I wrote this. It's mostly still accurate. However during this time I've vastly expanded my knowledge about kids, sleep, schedules, and sleep training. The sum total ...
Cry it Out When and Why?
Cry it out is a touchy subject and it seems I'm the only person on the Internet willing to openly discuss it as a valid sleep strategy. Or at least that is my working assumption based on the volume of ...