i'm still working through the comments of one of dooce's posts, about getting kids to sleep. i remember when i had tons of trouble getting a 2 year old to nap; and oddly, probably because i wasn't his mother, i let him cry it out (CIO) and it worked (altho man did he ever have lungs. i had to go out in the backyard a few times because i couldn't handle listening to him any longer! i didn't want him to hear me cry either (i was exhausted b/c i was still in school at the time)). one other time, when i had to put a 1 year old to nap (again a boy, different family) he was crying so much that i just went into his room and scratched his spine softly until he went to sleep. for some reason it worked. i don't know, maybe i instinctively knew that the two kids needed different things? perhaps it helped that they weren't biologically MY kids, you know. it's damn hard looking after children though. they push you to the limit like no other human beings i know (and this, i'm saying, after one of the most difficult weeks in my life i've had to survive as a manager!!!) touch wood it doesn't get worse.

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