Sleeping Baby Photo Contest

The Sleep like a Baby contest is a product of two sleep-minded mothers and I wanted to recognise both of them and their blogs. One is the author of, Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage, Ann Douglas and she blogs at Sleep Solutions. The other person that helped put this together is Tracy Clark a photographer , wife and author.

The photo above won second place but was tied with another adorable photo. Tracy writes:

And this shot from My Dragonfly of sleepy sibling sweetness holds the magic of togetherness that every parent dreams of. Heavy sigh. What a captivating moment and an absolute perfect image! I could stare at it for days.

The first place winner is this glowing picture of a new born.

Although they announced the winners November 1 of 2006, you can still add your photo to the collection and check out the other submissions.

Sleeping in Heavenly Peace?

"The whole Armor of God Pajama set will help your children to depend on God to protect them from their fears, doubts, and uncertainties at night so their sleep can be restful and peaceful."

There is something very twisted about this whole thing, yet I can't quite put my finger on it. Perhaps its that these pajamas make visible the fears many (christians and non-christians) associate with sleep, while also being a caricature of how we often go about dealing with these fears.

Goodby "Good Morning America"

We all know that the internet has been taking traditional TV audiences and shrinking the profitablility of TV. Here is another story about this trend that may change the way we wake-up to media. This week the LA Times had a story on the way this trend is effecting morning shows, whose demographic is made up of mothers.

It's difficult to trace the exact cause of the drop. It comes after two popular morning hosts, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, left their shows to be evening news anchors. At the same time, the advent of "mommy blogs," the growing popularity of online news sites and the ever-more-frantic press of daily life appear to have led many women to forgo the morning ritual of watching TV.

Sleep is a skill

I was pleasently surprised to come across this Child-Works, a sleep consulting firm. Here is a little bit about its sleep philosphy:

This philosophy is based on the notion that learning to sleep is a skill, just like talking, sitting up and walking. Sleeping well is a family issue and we believe that the child is not the soul focus of the sleep problems.

They have a lot of links, articles and books they recomend for parents that are trying to teach that life long skill of going to bed.