Family bedtime

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Naomi Aldort

Dear Naomi, I love your concept of family bedtime and wish to implement it into our family life. But my husband often needs to go to bed earlier than the children, because he has to get up for the work (and also feels more comfortable to go to bed earlier and get up earlier). What do you think about the theory of "the morning people" and "the night people"?(in our family children and me seem to be "the night people" and my husband "the morning person").

Dear Parent,

Going together to sleep as a family is an ideal, not a must. The important part is that the children are with a loving adult and don’t sleep alone. If your husband cannot participate, then enjoy going to be with the children yourself. There are no “theories,” only reality of life. Your husband can go to sleep earlier, and you and the children have the slumber party without him.

For the fuller description of full time co-sleeping, read my answer:

http://www.mothering.com/sleep-issues

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