{"id":2747,"date":"2021-09-07T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/can-a-special-device-help-me-become-the-great-parent-i-want-to-be\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:42:26","slug":"can-a-special-device-help-me-become-the-great-parent-i-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/can-a-special-device-help-me-become-the-great-parent-i-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a special device help me become the great parent I want to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By baby No 2, I just wanted a good night\u2019s sleep. But my journey into baby tech taught me something else, writes Sophie Brickman in this excerpt from Baby, Unplugged<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When my daughter Ella was little, I\u2019d often see various tech products on my Facebook feed purporting to calm parents who were anxious about their baby\u2019s sleep. Next to feeding, there\u2019s likely no more anxiety-prone part of the day than a child\u2019s bedtime \u2013 the fear they\u2019re not on a schedule, or that once they get on one, it\u2019s the wrong one, or that once they\u2019re actually asleep, they might never wake up.<\/p>\n<p>I dismissed them out of hand \u2013 we were sharing a room with Ella, and I was aware of her every snort and snuffle, though in retrospect, it seems obvious that we could have had her sleeping through the night a little earlier \u2026 if we\u2019d only settled on a sleep training method.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/sep\/07\/baby-unplugged-excerpt-sophie-brickman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/30417a72b2a1375b430341dfa8a5b480ac8aa8ca\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=82ebec4077a5d03df2e066b0e2e06536\" title=\"Can a special device help me become the great parent I want to be?\" \/>By baby No 2, I just wanted a good night\u2019s sleep. But my journey into baby tech taught me something else, writes Sophie Brickman in this excerpt from Baby, Unplugged<\/p>\n<p>When my daughter Ella was little, I\u2019d often see various tech products on my Facebook feed purporting to calm parents who were anxious about their baby\u2019s sleep. Next to feeding, there\u2019s likely no more anxiety-prone part of the day than a child\u2019s bedtime \u2013 the fear they\u2019re not on a schedule, or that once they get on one, it\u2019s the wrong one, or that once they\u2019re actually asleep, they might never wake up.<br \/>\nI dismissed them out of hand \u2013 we were sharing a room with Ella, and I was aware of her every snort and snuffle, though in retrospect, it seems obvious that we could have had her sleeping through the night a little earlier \u2026 if we\u2019d only settled on a sleep training method. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By baby No 2, I just wanted a good night\u2019s sleep. But my journey into baby tech taught me something else, writes Sophie Brickman in this excerpt from Baby, Unplugged When my daughter Ella was little, I\u2019d often see various tech products on my Facebook feed purporting to calm parents who were anxious about their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/07\/can-a-special-device-help-me-become-the-great-parent-i-want-to-be\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can a special device help me become the great parent I want to be?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}