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  • As others mentioned, consistent routine is amazing. Any change to routine and we were messed up again for about 2 weeks of sleep deprived hell.

    Bedtime routine is a process for wind down. Batch, brush teeth, bedtime story, light dimmer etc. over time those clues helped their body to know when to start winding down. So, not just consistency with timing. With bedtime story and lullabies, of purposely speak slower and softer as we progressed through. We used a smart light set to gradually dim down over the bedtime routine.

    One child, I found holding and gently rocking with a lullaby worked great. The other, not so much. The difficult one, o found more vigorous rocking helped. His eyes were constantly looking around and he’d remain stimulated. Wrapping him firmly in swaddling and rocking fast enough that it was hard for him to.focus but gently enough to be calming and sleepy. (Longer arcs helped and it was more tiring but good exercise). Instead of lullabies, lots of white noise like shushing helped.

    My kids are adopted and one of the rules while fostering is you can’t go into their bed and they can’t come into yours, so we didn’t do that. We had friends who did and they struggled when they were older to get them to sleep without being there with them. What I mean by this is whatever works, do it, but he careful to allow it to be carefulky dropped when not needed.


  • People follow it by agreement and the idea is they face sanctions if they don’t. It’s unlikely America will face direct sanctions. However they are unlikely to find many friendly partners moving forward. The more heinous acts, the less other countries can overlook it.

    It’s not just USA. The more countries that skirt international law, the more others also do the same and the less others listen to America. Putin doesn’t care about international law when invading Ukraine. Then china stops caring about consequences for invading Taiwan etc.

    It’s stuff like this that makes the international community more afraid of Trump. The grifting and grafting is an internal problem. The fascism is a humanity problem. The breakdown in rule of law is a global problem.