My children are having a difficult time
adjusting from West Coast time to East Coast hours. Their sleep
patterns are scrambled. While I could probably give them a tiny bit
of melatonin, I'm, instead, taking the literary road – with Dr.
Seuss's Sleep Book.
I discovered this tome when the Teen
was maybe 2 and it's been my “emergency sedative” for him and my
daughter ever since. Dr. Seuss tells the story of Van Vleck, a very
small bug who is getting sleeeeepy. His yawn (they're contagious, you
know) sets off a chain reaction which makes those around him tired
and gradually spreads world-wide.
In the book's pages you'll meet all
kinds of exotic creatures including stilt-walkers, the Hinkle-Horn
Honking Club, the collapsible Frink, Joe and Mo Redd-Zoff, the
Hoop-Soup-Snoop Group, the Curious Crandalls, Chippendale Mupp (who
bites his tail), Mr. and Mrs. J. Carmichael Krox, snorers who make
music, a dreaming moose and goose, the Bumble-Tub Club which is
sleeping afloat, and the salesmen in the Vale of Va-Vode sleeping all
over the road (and everywhere else).
The book's cadence is mesmerizing as it
lulls you into a state of relaxation. Reading it to your child, you
will find yourself calmer and yawning along with your child. It is
the BEST Dr. Seuss book you'll ever read and is the next best thing
to a ride in the car to help your child fall asleep. Buy it, read
it, keep it. You may even use it after the kids move out.
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