Interesting Links for 07-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• Unlock Democracy responds to government abandonment of Lords reform
  (tags: houseoflords politics EpicFail )
• West Port Book Festival - Edinburgh's independent bookseller's festival - needs your help!
  (tags: money edinburgh books )
• Prometheus: Calvinball Mythology and the Void of Meaning
  (tags: meaning movies prometheus myth )
• Neat post from a

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Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to seen a

[cartesiandaemon]

For that matter, what's bad about driving your child round if they enjoy it? It's a bit profligate to use a car for that, but if that's what puts a child to sleep, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the child or the parent, just a problem that no-one's made sufficiently convenient and safe warm+rocking cribs.

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[channelpenguin]

Same principle as rocking - early stage motion sickness induces drowsiness. I'd just be worried about sleep-deprived parents driving around in the middle of the night!

Of course none of this would be an issue without the silly (7,8)9-5(6, 7 whenever) 5(6,7) days a week treadmill-working-culture that doesn't allow time for naps for people of ALL ages.

Also "sleeping through" is not essential, waking up a for a bit one or more times is a normal, natural variant for all ages of people, and this used to be known. I've personally never slept more than 6 continuous hours in my life and that has only happened about twice. More usually I wake up every few hours (can be more often) sometimes for seconds, sometimes for a few minute - half an hour, sometimes [far less often] for hours...

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[andrewducker]

Indeed! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

I sometimes wonder if society is adapted for one small group of people whose genes work one way, and think that everyone else would work the same way, if they just tried harder.

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[redshira]

Well, that seems to be how it works with regard to fatness and sleeping patterns which fall into the awake-in-the-early-morning slot.

Re: Third of mothers and fathers lie about their children's sleeping habits because they want to se

[andrewducker]

It was the sleeping patterns one I was thinking of.

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[drdoug]

My kids were terrible sleepers when they were babies. I regularly drove my first around in the car to get him and his mother some sleep. In my book, it was a far more justifiable use of a car than just about any other use I've put mine to.

One the thing that did bother me at that point was the widespread advice to sleep-deprived parents to "sleep when baby sleeps". Perhaps not.