If you are ever bored and want to make life a little spicy, try introducing the topic of sleep into a room of parents with children under the age of three and then fleeing. Like farting and then ...

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Sleep training is any approach you take to help your baby learn to settle themself to sleep and to sleep for longer. The idea is that once they can do this, they’re more likely to sleep through the ...

In the intense debate over sleep training, even parenting books offer conflicting advice, with about two-thirds advising parents to use sleep training and one-third advising against it. But what does ...

What is the Ferber method? Sleep deprivation can be one of the most challenging aspects of parenthood. But there are ways parents can help babies learn to sleep for longer and more consistent ...

The issue of sleep training has become rather emotional and downright nasty in recent years. The controversy centers around whether methods that advocate letting babies cry (even for short periods of ...

Lucid dreaming apps are gaining in popularity as interest grows in optimizing sleep for self-improvement and better health. If you ever experience a dream while knowing that you are dreaming—that's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using behavioral training to help babies fall asleep doesn't seem to harm them emotionally or developmentally years later, but it doesn't benefit them long-term either, ...

Well, I'm back. After a lengthy parental leave, when publication of the Planet Money newsletter decreased in frequency, I'm now working full-time and the newsletter will go back to being published ...

Welcome to parenthood! For many of us, parenthood is like being air-dropped into a foreign land, where protohumans rule and communication is performed through cryptic screams and colorful fluids. And ...

Some parents swear by it. They say it's the only way they and their babies get any sleep. Others parents say it's harmful. So what does the... Sleep Training Truths: What Science Can (And Can't) Tell ...