Who among us hasn’t, at some point, awakened to the sight of a child’s elbow smacking our faces, or a foot jammed into our chests? Even kids whose parents prohibit co-sleeping tend to, at some point, wind up in their parents’ beds. A bad dream, an illness, or an instinctive desire to … Read more
A study of 477 parents, done by R. Mahendran, J.A. Valngankar, s. Mythily and Y.M. Cal, in Singapore Med Journal, found that 72.7% of children co-sleep with their parents. Is co-sleeping between parents and children really healthy for children, or does it damage the child and cause them to grow into fearful, … Read more
Co-sleeping is a controversial practice in the United States, despite the fact that children in most other cultures, as well as children throughout human history, have typically slept with their parents for the first few years of life. Perhaps as a result of this controversy, there’s little information available about what to … Read more