While the findings of this article come as little surprise to me - we've been letting The Kid™ get dirty pretty much since since she was old enough to crawl, and she's rarely had so much as a fever - the details about why children who are allowed to play in the dirt seem to [...]
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Adventures In Ferbering -- Days Eight through Ten
Day One
Day Two and Three
Day Four and Five
Day Six
Day Seven
Sigh. Well, I'll tell you, no updates on the sleep-training for a while after this one. We've decided to stall the process for a few days and regroup after the Christmas happenings.
The problems are: A) we'll be going away for a couple days which will [...]
Adventures In Ferbering -- Day Seven
Day One
Day Two and Three
Day Four and Five
Day Six
DAY SEVEN
Not knowing if last night was merely a bump in the road or a complete ruination of all the Ferber work we'd suffered through done, we approached tonight cautiously and anxiously.
8:15p -- The Squirt™ was pretty tired as usual, and fell asleep around the usual [...]
Adventures In Ferbering -- Day Six
Day One
Day Two and Three
Day Four and Five
DAY SIX
Hey, alright! Disaster strikes!
8:10p -- Good night, baby.
9:30p -- Good night, wifey.
10:00p -- Uh oh, while talking to my bro on the phone, I hear The Squirt™ stirring. What the hell? For the last 5-6 days she's been completely out at this point. Maybe it's just a [...]
Adventures In Ferbering -- Day Four and Five
Day One
Day Two and Three
DAY FOUR
Getting the feeling like we're coming to some sort of Ferber crossroads here on the fourth day. Unfortunately, we just have so many questions that it's tough to tell if what we're doing is effective or not -- and we're still too stubborn/lazy to buy the book.
So, our plan tonight [...]
Adventures In Ferbering -- Day Two and Three
More on our continuing adventures in the frightening, terrifying, and traumatizing world of sleep training! Specifically, the Ferber Method. You can read what happened the first night here.
So, the next two nights (last Saturday and Sunday) were fairly uneventful on the Ferber front...pretty much because we didn't really know what we were doing. Haha! Wheeee! [...]
Adventures In Ferbering -- Day One
Honestly, The Squirt™ slept pretty well for the first 5.5 months of her life. Sure, there were momentary anomalies, but nothing that drove us too crazy.
Then suddenly, a couple weeks ago, for reasons unknown to anyone but our lovely daughter, she decided that her sleep pattern would be her absolute worst to date: up every [...]
