Do you have a fancy bed? I do. It's from the Mattress Mattress Store In Kelowna. It tells me how my restful my night was, details my sleep patterns and even sends a soft alert to my phone to remind me it’s bedtime. A smart bed. What has the [...]
Every morning, I wake up at 4am to start my day. It’s essential that I take those first few hours of quiet for myself before the rest of the house wakes up. It’s the calm before the storm, so to speak. As a lot of us already know, working [...]
It's the father of all parenting advice blog posts: Tips For Getting Your Infant To Sleep Through The Night, from dads who have been there and done it. https://www.facebook.com/lifeofdad/posts/10155097933471427 Ryan Hobson: Show them all the love you have for them and be patient man. There will be times that you [...]
Babies are a bit like dogs when they are sleeping. Periods of calm restfulness interspersed with moments of activity. Dogs whimper and run in their sleep. Babies – at least the one currently sleeping on my chest – go through periods of activity as well. This particular one also whimpers [...]
Athletes and bands aren't the only things/people that can be underrated, although The Afghan Whigs WERE critically underrated during the 90's. But I digress, we recently asked the moms and dads of our outstanding Facebook community to share the things they think are underrated. I mean, sleep, obviously, especially sleep [...]
My youngest kid is always the first one up which was a major problem when she was younger because apparently noise never sounds noisy when she’s making it. But as she got older, she started to take care to be quiet (yes, it does eventually happen). One morning while staying [...]
The room is dark. The lamps on the street below cast vague shadows onto the walls of the room. The windows from the building across the street reflect the alternating red, yellow and green from the traffic light at the corner, while the white security light shines brightly on the [...]
Dad and author Adam Mansbach joins us to talk about his latest book, You Have to F*****g Eat, the long awaited sequel to his fake children’s book for adults, Go the F**k to Sleep. We discuss his critics and the Twitter exchange he had with children’s entertainer Raffi about the [...]
I have some good news and some bad news. Good news: there have been signs of progress in Eitan's sleep training. Last week, on consecutive nights, he slept straight through until 4:30 and 5:15. Bad news: he woke up three times during each of the following two nights.1 Good news: [...]
Father and Go the F*#! to Sleep Author Adam Mansbach talks to us about his children’s book for adults and why it has struck such a chord. We also talk about his other works of literary fiction and the path that led him to his life as a writer and artist. Whit Honea drops in again [...]