Alarm Clock Conditioning

PARENTHACK.COM -- Apparently, you can use an alarm clock to teach your children to sleep in. You set it for the time they normally wake up and they learn that they can get up when it goes off. After they're reassured by the alarm clock, you start setting later. They will teach themselves to go back to sleep if they wake up before the alarm goes off. More...

But I'm not tired

This is a great video on ParentCenter about handling issues with children who resist going to bed or make it into a traumatic experience for parents.

In Rachel news... today she pinched the skin between two fingers with the hinge on her sunglasses. She was crying and Lori asked what had happened. She said "It pinched me right in there. And it TOTALLY hurt!"