Babble

I used to mock, in the privacy of my mind, those parents who were chained to their kids' beds, chained to an endless nightly routine of lying down wth the kid, lying down in silence and stillness, hardly daring to breathe, sometimes for hours until said kid finally fell asleep, sometimes not until...

My 14-month-old daughter's bedtime routine is a well-oiled machine. She sleeps in her crib all night. And her mother and I enjoy a little alone time to truly bond as a couple and do something we can't do in front of our child: Watch TV for five straight hours. A recent vacation changed all that. Emmeline...