A Scary Story from Suburbia

This is another one of those "would have blogged it if I had a blog back then" stories.

One night we were over at a neighbor's house for dinner, and another couple was also there. We'll call them "Fred" and "Ginger." They had two children, a newborn and a four or five year old boy.

I don't remember how we got onto the topic but somehow I ended up talking with "Ginger" about The Family Bed, a parenting strategy that has young children sleep with their parents. She said that they had been doing that since their son was born. I asked if their son still slept with them every night, and she assured me that he did.

(Lest I draw some flak here, let me point out that I don't have any problem with that at all. Whatever works for you, folks.)

I gestured toward her newborn daughter and joked "Boy, how did you manage to get pregnant again?"

She earnestly replied, "Kids are really heavy sleepers at that age."

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!