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I intend for this to be a series of threads where I identify relatively prominent human choices/tendencies/etc. that I don't entirely understand and/or I think seems strange but probably isn't criminal and am surprised at how often I encouter them.
Up first: co-sleeping. Co-sleeping is defined as: the practice of parents and young children sleeping in the same bed. This is a regular activity and rare instances like a sick child or a kid who had a bad dream climbing in with mommy and/or daddy once in awhile doesn't count. Doing family law work, it has surprised me how often I encounter this and I've learned that this is a far more common practice than I assumed. Again, it's not illegal or even entirely relevant to legal proceedings re: parenting time/legal decision-making, but I found its prevalency to be surprising. Further I've heard of it/encountered in cases with kids up to the age of 11.
Personally, my bed is about the only place my kids aren't welcome. My wife and I made the decision when we took in our first child that we would never let our kids regularly sleep in bed with us. Sleep and some privacy are just too important. And the rare occasions where a kid winds up in our bed (usually a bad dream or my foster son used to struggle to sleep in cribs that weren't his normal one) seems pleasant as first but inevitably winds up with me getting poor sleep (my 3 year old daughter somehow amazingly gets me displaced and on the very edge of the bed the few times she'll be allowed to sleep in bed - every time!).
What say you? Strange or no?
Up first: co-sleeping. Co-sleeping is defined as: the practice of parents and young children sleeping in the same bed. This is a regular activity and rare instances like a sick child or a kid who had a bad dream climbing in with mommy and/or daddy once in awhile doesn't count. Doing family law work, it has surprised me how often I encounter this and I've learned that this is a far more common practice than I assumed. Again, it's not illegal or even entirely relevant to legal proceedings re: parenting time/legal decision-making, but I found its prevalency to be surprising. Further I've heard of it/encountered in cases with kids up to the age of 11.
Personally, my bed is about the only place my kids aren't welcome. My wife and I made the decision when we took in our first child that we would never let our kids regularly sleep in bed with us. Sleep and some privacy are just too important. And the rare occasions where a kid winds up in our bed (usually a bad dream or my foster son used to struggle to sleep in cribs that weren't his normal one) seems pleasant as first but inevitably winds up with me getting poor sleep (my 3 year old daughter somehow amazingly gets me displaced and on the very edge of the bed the few times she'll be allowed to sleep in bed - every time!).
What say you? Strange or no?
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