Bedtime on Shine

How to Get Your Kids to Bed on Time

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Children need a routine sleep schedule each and every night to ensure that they're rested for school, organized

Bedtimes with Nathan

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My youngest son is a night owl. Even before he was born, he kept me up at night. My usual bedtime is sometime about 9:30 on average. When I was pregnant, I would lie down and just start to drift off when he would suddenly decide to party, turning and kicking and otherwise wreaking havoc for a…

Who needs bedtimes? My daughter goes to sleep whenever she wants.

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It's ten p.m., and I know exactly where my child is. Upstairs, in her bedroom. But she's not asleep. Last I checked in on her, she met me at the safety gate at the top of the stairs draped in her miniature surgeon's scrubs, her bug-hunting hat perched on her still-damp-from-the-bath…

The Babble Sleep Guide: Having trouble getting your little one to sleep? We've got the solution!

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There is perhaps no greater affront to the system than the loss of a good night's sleep in the hazing ritual that is Freshman Parenting. It's not for nothing that sleep deprivation is recognized the world over as…

Can you ever catch up on sleep?

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Forget the economy. Your sleep debt may be hurting you more than your dwindling 401(K) or tightening grocery budget. If the hours of rest you're getting is on a downturn, is it ever possible to make up all that lost sleep? The answer, according to

A little story

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It is now time for all little boys and girls to put their p.j.'s on and come sit by the fire to hear Uncle Hoglet tell a little story before you all have to go to bed! "one dark night in the middle of the day, two dead boys got up to play. They faced each other back to back, pulled out swords...

A Sleep Expert Tells Us What We're Doing Wrong at Bedtime

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The biggest mistake people make at bedtime? Thinking eight is enough.

Right out of the gate, most parents do not recognize that their children need more sleep than they really realize. Adults, the range is seven to nine, and on...

5 ways to get (and stay!) asleep tonight

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We've all been there in the heart-pounding moments at 3 a.m., when we desperately want to be asleep but somehow cannot get there, when we are racking our brains for what is in our medicine cabinet that might help us along or what soothing things mothers and grandmothers did to help lull us back...

Help me out!: What's your bedtime routine?

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In the last couple of months, my night-time ritual, which once included of a lovely hour of reading or a few well-earned moments of Zen-like meditation or even (ack! what happened to this?) pages of soul-searched journaling, has devolved. Now, what is supposed to be a time of easing from waking life...