Our son, SBJ, is two now, and we are still a co-sleeping family, though he now theoretically has his own bedroom. I’m mulling an update on how that is working, but in the meantime, I thought I’d just collect the occasional posts I’ve written over the last couple of years, now with pretty pictures! Click […]
This is the fourth in an occasional series on our experience of co-sleeping with our toddler (or baby, as he was when we began). You can see the series listĀ here.Ā Lucky us, we’re staying in a fabulous studio apartment in Bath this week while we catch up with family in the United Kingdom. Among the […]
This is the third an occasional series on our experience of co-sleeping with our baby (and toddler, as he becomes later on!). You can see the series listĀ here.Ā Co-sleeping becomes a whole new thing when your baby gets mobile. I was so astounded by observing the phenomenon of sleep-crawling (SBJ also sleep-talks and sleep-dances. It’s […]
This is the secondĀ in an occasional series on our experience of co-sleeping with our baby (and toddler, as he becomes later on!). You can see the series listĀ here.Ā The most common question people have about co-sleeping may actually be about sex, but as I said in the comments to the first post in this series, […]
This is the first in an occasional series on our experience of co-sleeping with our baby (and toddler, as he becomes later on!). You can see the series list here.Ā We didn’t intend to become ‘attachment parents.’ We don’t tick all the boxes, but we could certainly sneak into an AP Christmas party and fit […]
I love a good list. Here are the top ten posts of 2015, in terms of how many times they’ve been read. There were some surprises, even for an avid stats-page-watcher like me. The oldest one is from three years ago, but eight of the ten are from this year. I like to think I’m […]
Greatest Hits: Most Popular Posts on Sacraparental Would you like a quick tour? Here are some good posts to start with! Just click on the picture. Collections and Series Sacraparental is full of eclectic series, some ongoing and occasional, some more regular or structured. You can use the search box on the right, or […]
Thanks to friends and RSS feeds, I came across a few different articles over the weekend that all stayed with me. I wanted to blog about each of them, briefly, but now my thoughts about them seem connected so I thought I’d just lay them out together and see what you think. The common thread […]
I first encountered Carlos Gonzalez in this Guardian interview, and thought, what a lovely man! I bought his second book, Kiss Me!: How to Raise Your Children With Love, and gobbled it in a couple of days. He had me at ‘hello’ with this on the second page: The stance of a book or of […]