A TikToker recently reported that her company gave employees the option to share beds with co-workers on a trip. According to her account of the incident, the request came from human resources and was ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. Before her son was born in 2020, Candace St. John had no plans to bed-share with her baby. As a public ...

One common question for new parents is this one: "Is s/he a good baby?" This usually means, "Is your baby content and sleeping well?" Parents with "good" babies are congratulated, while those with ...

A friend of mine was telling me about a recent family camping trip and the one room cabin by a lake that they rented. “Where did everybody sleep?’ I asked, because it sounded impossible to get parents ...

It's a familiar scene for sleep-deprived parents everywhere: They put down the baby in the bassinet to sleep, and those tiny eyes flutter shut. Then they flutter back open and the crying starts. The ...