PARENTING April 2, 2007 Issue

SLEEP ISSUES? COMMANDMENT 9 TO THE RESCUE!

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WHEN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS I teach decided to study each of the Ten Commandments this year, I began to view them as spiritual solutions to my 21st-century life.

My husband, Shawn, and I live in New York City with our two children. Our son, Odie, is two and a half, and our daughter, Honey, is one year old. Shawn is in a full-time master of fine arts program and spends his evenings and weekends painting portraits. I'm primarily at home with the children, while also doing freelance work and developing my own career. While our life may not seem to have much in common with Mosaic law, Moses and the Ten Commandments are definitely at work here! In fact, a recent experience in our family has proved to me that the spiritual essence of the Commandments as taught in Christian Science makes them my essential parenting guide.

As for so many families with young children, sleep became an issue for our daughter recently. She was waking up regularly in the wee hours of the morning, violently crying and not at all content to play quietly until daylight.

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