Sleep

New parents are famously sleep deprived. So much so that when the occasional news story comes out that some parent drove off with their baby still sitting in his basket on top of the car, people are appalled but not really surprised. So it is with some despair that I find myself chronically sleep deprived some 14 years after the birth of my last child.

My children, with all their various quirks, insomniac habits, and need for either constant supervision or complete and total personal care, have left me with permanent new parent syndrome.