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From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Putting small children to sleep
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 08:15:50 EST
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Changes of scenery sometimes help a child go to sleep.  I hate to get
pseudo-Freudian and "cutesy" about it, but we found that the temporary
getting to sleep problems we experienced with both our kids got
resolved rather quickly if we let them fall asleep in OUR bed, then
transferred them to their own once they were out cold.  Being allowed
to sleep in mommy's (and DADDY'S!) bed seemed to make a major difference.
I wondered if I weren't on the road to some fantastic Oedipal trauma;
but at the time it hurt far more to hear them scream and yell.  As it
turned out, this routine lasted about a week or two with both kids at
different times.  

Whatever solution you adopt, be comforted in knowing it WILL pass.
Exhaustion generally wins out even over the strongest of wills.
-- 
Kenneth T. Wolman
Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ
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