Many people often ask creative writers where we get our ideas. This poem was inspired by a variety of posts I read here at Babies Online, especially those that discussed bedtime routines and setting a schedule.
Then, my niece had an assignment in her college writing class to write a particular form of poem, a villanelle. [...]
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My almost three-year-old son is giving up his nap. Sigh. On the days where he naps, he’s wide awake at bedtime, past bedtime, way past bedtime, and is still trying to jump on the bed and sing songs about weasels at 9.30pm. A few cranky afternoons excepted, he’s a happy little chap all day when [...]
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It never fails. Whenever my husband is home over the weekend and the time comes for my son to wildly protest nap time as he usually does, my husband waltzes into our son’s bedroom and works whatever magic he works to get my son to fall asleep. During the week nap time is [...]
Tags: daddy, discipline, Mommy, naps, naptime, not sleeping
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