For all the parents out there.

[WilliamPitt]

Good night, sanity
For parents driven to distraction by children who simply won’t nod off at night, an author and an illustrator, both with local roots, offer a book distinctly not for little ones

By Beth Teitell
Globe Staff / June 11, 2011

FOXBOROUGH — Four-year-old Jack Francomano was an hour and counting into his nightly bedtime shenanigans when his parents started to crack. “Jack, you are done,’’ Stephen said as Jack darted from his room, yet again, and Sarah practiced deep-breathing exercises.

“My room is making me sweaty!’’ he wailed as his father scooped him up, a deceptively cute figure in Superman pajamas who had already rushed into his parents’ room and turned on the television, played games on his father’s phone while promising to go to sleep soon, tearfully refused to be read a book, disturbed his (easygoing) 8-month-old brother William in his crib, and, in a last-ditch effort that sparked a brief argument between his parents, claimed he was thirsty.

Then, finally, at 8:31 p.m., it was over. “The eagle has landed,’’ said Stephen, 44, a vice president of event technologies at Cramer, a company in Norwood, as Jack’s calls about needing to go “poopy’’ ceased. The grown-ups were off duty at last, but neither looked relaxed. The eagle would be up early, they knew, and then, tomorrow night, up to his tricks once again.

There are no statistics on the number of kids holding their parents hostage each night, but here’s one way to measure the extent of the situation: “Go the F**k to Sleep,’’ a sweet-looking book that gives frustrated and exhausted parents a voice, hit the top spot on Amazon’s bestseller list in May — five months before its original publication date.

The rest: http://www.boston.com/community/moms/articles/2011/06/11/different_kind_of_bedtime_story_gives_parents_a_voice/?p1=News_links

The cover:



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[sce56]

1. Hilarious

The link to d/l it is posted here.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archive/index.php/t-895921.html

[Duval]

2. Dammit!! I recently installed

Norton Virus "Dual Protections" and they are saying I cannot recommend this!! Pardon me, but WTF! REGARDLESS, I RECOMMEND! If anyone knows how to go around this, please let me know. This makes me furious...censorship?? From Norton? Damn!:mad: :wtf: :yourock:

[Ptah]

3. It's not Norton.

DU does not allow recommendations in the Lounge

[1monster]

4. Jack was asleep by 8:31, and these people think they are sleep deprived?!

My kid started out waking every two hours round the clock. By the time he was one year old, I no longer allowed him a nap in the middle of the day. If he had a thirty minute nap, he would be up past midnight. At which point I would break down and give him some benedryl. And he would still wake every two hours.

That pattern went on till he was three years old. Then he would get up only two or three times a night. Still no afternoon nap allowed. I would wake to find him crawling up my legs as he escaped from his bed to mine.

I had to start picking him up from preschool an hour and a half early because they would put him down for a nap at noon, despite my imploring them never to let him have a nap.

When he started kindergarten, I finally was able to get him to bed by 9:00 three out of five nights and he still woke up in the middle of the night three or four times a week.

He's nineteen now and still stays up most of the night. Sometimes all night. The difference now is that I no longer have to worry about him being up in the night.