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How many hours do you sleep at night? Do you feel children should learn to sleep by themselves? What strategies do you employ to get a good night' s sleep? Brinda replied. As far as possible, get your child to sleep on his own. It is better for your child an dfor you also. Otherwise you will not be able to send your child anywhere. He will always be asking for you to go along. It will free you sleeping problem later on. However, to develop a habit of sleeping alone in your child, you will have to take a little effort in the beginning. It is also possible that you have to spend some nights near your child’s new bed or crib until he or she is used-to sleeping all alone. So, such things will save the trouble which you would have to take in future otherwise. Rohini replied. In our house the problem is slightly different. We have a dog. In the beginning he used to sleep near the bed. Now, he gets up in the middle and jumps on the bed. For this reason our sleep gets disturbed. We can not sleep comfortable and whole night he keeps moving here and there. On the top of that, sometimes if he hears some weird noise of other roadside dogs barking as we can normally hear at night he starts barking loudly and disturbs everybody at night. We are really tried of this dog. I do not know how we should deal with this problem. At least children can be dealt with easily. Kavita replied. It is not only children who keep you up. Every day my husband comes home late from work. I have to stay awake till he comes so I can make the food hot and give him dinner. Then, in the morning I get up and make the children´ s tiffin. I do not know how to deal with that. As I have two children I can not even rest for a bit. My elder son goes to school in the morning. When he is almost about to come back i have to drop my other son to his nursery. Than I have to come back home and make food for my elder son. And after that I have to deal with other day to day chores.