One of you sent me this question recently, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think almost every parent of more than one young kid has lived some version of this exact night. They are very close and have a dynamic where the older one will start to get dysregulated, tired, hungry,...

"She has a very hard time going to bed on her own and will not let us go downstairs when it's bedtime." A TMP Times member sent me that line recently, and if you're already nodding, here's the rest of what she told me. Her daughter put on her pajamas, jumped straight into her parents' bed, and ...