Moving from One to Two Starting a Family Your Own Little Universe Interacting with the Big World Home as a Safe Harbor Keeping the Magic Alive Relationships Are the Center Fixing It When It Breaks As Your Family Grows Up Why Are You Doing This?

Part Three / Your Own Little Universe

Chapter 6    The Groove
Chapter 7    The Basics
Chapter 8    Good Habits

Years ago, before I was a parent, someone I knew with three young kids told me, “There are only two things you need to make sure of with kids:

Make sure they eat.

Make sure they sleep.”

The “only” is a gross oversimplification, and yet in retrospect I realize the wisdom in the words. Eating and sleeping are really the bottom line.