’bout Jack and Annie …

(two American kids, living outside D.C.)

Saturday, February 9, 2008

sleep diplomacy

it's funny ... sometimes toddler sleep issues can very closely resemble a foreign policy crisis. take, for example, jack's 3:30 am wake up last night.



daddy and mommy turned to each other -- what should we do?



be interventionist or isolationist?



would shuttle diplomacy be the solution? benign neglect? brinksmanship??



and would we achieve a rapprochement or simply mutually assured destruction?



we took a realpolitik approach. we decided to let him cry it out and ultimately settle himself back to sleep.



we can only hope that if it happens again tonight that condi will be here to put him back to bed.



where's dean acheson when you need him?!?

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