It’s going to take a loooong time to turn this mess around.
Culture’s a big part of this too. Here in India, it’s common for families to share a bed, even with older children. This may in part also be due to a lack of available bedrooms, as some houses here are quite small. As I recall, co-sleeping was part of what got that family in Norway in trouble, that the parents were co-sleeping with their kids and the Norway government thought it was abusive to do so.
This whole article is just sick.
Parents make the mistake of allowing this to happen.
Once started it’s hard to stop.
My wife and I have slept together in a normal sized double bed for 50 years now. No kids or dogs allowed.
I like having her near.
This calls for every child to have a government monitor from birth, as in enlightened Scotland! Employ more government workers! SEIU members!
Maybe the pro-Democrat purpose is simply to give the readers an opportunity to run down other people. One might say that at the heart of the statist worldview is the idea, “I’m better than all those other people who (fill in the blank), and I deserve to run their lives my way.”
So much of this is just sick and wrong. When the kids rule the house and call the shots, the marriage is doomed for failure. They’ve made little idols of their children, to the detriment of all.
On a lighter note, the “Go the F—k to Sleep” book is absolutely hysterical.
First, I did not read the entire article.
Second, it sounds like the author is trying place a “condition” on this (as in psychological).
Third, I’m sure someone will come up with a medication for it (and make a profit).
Easy solution to this problem... Just toss a couple of dead bugs under the sheets before the kids get into your bed and let them see them ! You can say “I don’t know why all these bugs keep getting into the bed ? I think they are invading my room “ ! The kid(s) will never want to sleep with you again...
As soon as our little player to be named later, due any day now, makes her appearance into this world, I’ll be nursing number three. I’ve never co-slept. Frankly the idea scares the hell out of me. I did fall asleep one time with my son and he had wiggled his way down into my lap. That shaved a few years off of my life when I woke up and saw what happened! In addition to my fear of smothering my baby, co-sleeping is just a bad idea to begin with. I know couples that haven’t slept alone for years. That’s not healthy. Mom and dad need that time to sleep and enjoy the physical part of a healthy marriage. I know moms that argue the, “Families did this for centuries,” angle, but people did a lot of things for centuries before learning new things.
We had a heck of a time getting our youngest out of the bed at age 5. We told her that when she started kindergarten, she was a big girl and had to sleep in her own bed.
I think my wife was just as upset as my daughter.
She (my wife) had gone though ovarian cancer and all the ramifications the year before, and I think she realized this was her last baby.
It was hard on all of us.
Ick
“She’s worked as a “sleep doula”...”
They misspelled “swindler.”
ping