Sleeping In Strategy

Ethan has always been an early riser. And since Scott and I are both natural nightowls, we suffered under his nasty five-to-six a.m. awakenings.

Until now . . .

(This sounds like an infomercial script.)

The key to getting your kid to sleep in is to take him six time zones to the east, let him stay up until eleven o'clock each night and sleep to nine in the morning, and bring him home to four more weeks of summer vacation. Finally, we sleep in.

Next week: Undoing Six Weeks of Time Readjustment for the Start of School.