On the off-chance I’m ever asked to go on Mastermind, I know the specialist subject I would score best on: sleep. I’ve been talking about it, reading about it, googling it every single day since I gave birth to the first of four resolutely sleep-resistant children 16 years ago. Now, just when I thought I had crawled out of the torturous era of getting kids to sleep, I’m trawling the internet for advice on how to wake them up. Trying to get two slothful teenage daughters from bedroom to classroom is like wading through wet concrete — and I have just found out why. Apparently the two little girls who once woke at 5am every single day are now suffering from…

Source: The Times October 07, 2017 23:03 UTC