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[Moonliner]

Stupid Parent Tricks -101.

When Moonie Jr. was an infant, he would often cry during the night. One day I thought to myself, hey he doesn't like the dark. So I installed a sound activated light switch in the nursery. That way if he stared crying a nice comforting light would come on.

In truth, "comforting" was not quite the result. His response was more "Oh, it's morning. Time to get up!" and not go back to sleep for hours totally messing up his sleep patterns.

Compounding this was the effect on Mrs. Moonie. Who for days got up with him in the middle of the night and sat with him for hours trying to get him back to sleep (while of course seriously mucking up her own sleep schedule) and always wondering who left the light on in the nursery.