To prevent the time change from destroying your family’s sleep, you can work to adjust your baby’s schedule forward gradually, until she’s close to waking about an hour later than usual.

 Respectful parenting is a learning process that requires us to keep an open mind so that we can perceive our children, ourselves, and the relationship dynamics between us with more clarity.  As parents, we’ll probably always be guided by our intuitive hearts, but it can be helpful to entertain the scientist in us as well. While sensitive observation is our most powerful tool for gaining insights about our children and their behavior, scientific studies can also be enlightening and valid...

To my beloved child,

Let me begin this letter by telling you the one thing I know with absolute certainty…

I love you.

More than you can imagine. No matter how much I say it, the words just don’t seem to carry enough weight to express just how genuinely I mean that. I love you.

I know that must be hard to believe at times, because it seems like I’m always standing between you and the things you’d so dearly like to experience.

Always jumping in between you and the goodies in the chec...

You may be wondering why we make any fuss at all over the end of daylight saving time. It happens every year, after all…what’s the big deal​

The big deal is this: your baby’s internal clock won’t change along with your household clocks.  And while we adults can process the time change and stay in bed until our normal wake-up time even after we “fall back”, your baby or young toddler can’t do this.  You can bet that if your baby usually wakes at a certain time (say, 7:00 a.m.), she’ll...