Ther e is a report in today's paper about the wisdom or otherwise of allowing small children to come into their parents' bed. It is understandable that waking up alone in the dark can be frightening for a child. During the daytime there is always an adult to run to for comfort. What to do?
In order to get some rest we sometimes took one or other of our children into our bed. After some restless minutes my husband would move out and spend the rest of the night in the child's bed. He said it was like acting in a French farce. You never knew which bed you were going to wake up in.
When one child had terrible earache I remember reading chapters of "Three Men in a Boat" to distract him. Funnily enough I repeated this performance with a grandson who was staying with us many years later. A doctor friend said he saw no harm in the practice as long as we stopped by the time our son was eighteen ! Primitive tribes are much kinder to their children.
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