Sweet Dreams With Dreampad
Sweet dreams with a sweet pillow.
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Tag: sleep
Customize Your Night’s Rest With Sleeping Organic’s Shredded Latex Pillow
Getting a good night’s sleep is key to being functional the next day, as well as contributing to your overall health. Finding the right pillow for you is a big part of that. Sleeping Organic’s Shredded Latex Pillow is a great option.
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7 Things About the SevenHugs HugOne
SevenHugs HugOne Sleep Monitor gathers lots of data. Doing something with it is up to you.
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GeekDad Geekaway: The Casper Mattress and Parachute Sheets Giveaway
Enter for a chance to win in the Casper Mattress and Parachute Sheets Giveaway.
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Get Your Best Night’s Sleep Ever With Leesa (Plus Exclusive Discount!)
You have 100 nights to find out that the Leesa is the best mattress you’ve ever had. Plus you can get it for less with our exclusive GeekDad code!
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Daily #DadJoke for October 01, 2015
Good sleep comes to me naturally…
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GeekDad Daily Deal: the Striiv Fusion Activity & Sleep Tracker
Striiv for excellence with today’s Daily Deal: 39% off today.
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Daily #DadJoke for March 26, 2015
I slept like a log last night…
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‘OK to Wake! Owl’ Is a Sleeper Hit
One of the number one issues most parents of small children, like myself, have is getting enough sleep. After about six months of much lack of sleep, we were lucky enough that our son started sleeping through the night for about 10-12 hours on average. Until two weeks ago.
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Daily #DadJoke for February 01, 2015
Last evening, I hardly slept at all, as I dreamt that I was writing The Hobbit and The Silmarillion…
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“You Have to F*cking Eat” Is Funny Because It’s True
Getting your kids to eat right is the perennial challenge of being a parent, and now it’s been turned into a humorous not-for-kids children’s book.
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A DIY Mid-Century Medieval Guest Room Upgrade
With two kids, a dog, and space at a general premium, having a guest room has never been an easy task for our growing family. We’ve made some sad attempts over the years to accommodate visitors, including a futon (shudder), a second-string queen sized bed (which ended up covered in marker), and an office/nursery combination. […]
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The Basis Watch Provides Tons of Data and Can Help Improve Your Health
The Basis is billed as “the world’s most advanced health tracker”. But can it really make it a difference in how you live a healthy lifestyle?
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10 Sneaky Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning
A little confession: I am not a morning person. In fact, I hate getting up before 9 a.m., and I’d probably sleep until 10 a.m. if I could. But sometimes you just have to get up.
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8 Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning
I’m not a morning person. I’ve tried. Really. But I stay up too late and I’d sleep in every morning if I had the chance. But there aren’t enough hours in the day for kids, hobbies, work, and sleep, but life’s far too short to spend it all in a drowsy haze. So here are 10 tips I use for getting up early every morning.
Continue ReadingSleeping (Hopefully) With The Pajanimals
It’s time for sleep! A series of interviews with Alex Rockwell and Halle Stanford from The Jim Henson Company about the show The Pajanimals.
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Philips Wake-up Light Gently Eases You Out of Slumber
It’s no secret that I’m not a morning person. The new Philips Wake-up Light promises a nice alternative to the blaring klaxons usually required to rouse me from my slumber. Does it work, though?
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – The Bright Clock
The puzzle, as previously presented: After getting a new alarm clock for our master bedroom, I determined that the clock is entirely too bright. It kept me awake for most of the night, as every minute it changed the time and burned a new pattern in to my retinas. As I laid there, unable to […]
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – The Bright Clock
Figure out this week’s puzzle for a chance to win a $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate!
Continue ReadingSleep-Deprived Kids? Not So Much, Says 6776-Child Study
There are things we know to be true, including the impending Mayan end of the world and the fact that kids are increasingly getting too little sleep. However, at least the second appears to hold less thruthiness than we doomsday …
Continue ReadingStudents Who Stay Awake to Study Do Worse in School the Next Day
Students who average more study hours do better in school. But a study published last week in the journal Child Development shows that students who stay awake to study more than their average — i.e. to cram — up …
Continue ReadingReview: The Nightwave Sleep Aid
Once in a while I have difficulty shutting down for the evening. My brain grabs onto a subject and refuses to quit thinking about them. I’ve tried everything from meditation to Tylenol PM with some success, but after a busy …
Continue ReadingHealth and Fitness Week at GeekMom
It is ironic that I am the one writing the introduction to GeekMom’s “Health and Fitness Week,” because with all of the things that I can claim legitimate geek cred for, “health geek” is not one of them. I regularly indulge my salt and chocolate cravings, often drink half a carafe of coffee before […]
Continue ReadingWordstock Interview & Book Review: Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime by Myra Wolfe
Myra Wolfe is the author of a new picture book, Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime, about a little pirate girl who refuses to go to sleep. It’s a wonderful book, with beautiful illustrations by Maria Monescillo, and it’s a familiar scenario …
Continue ReadingGeek Lifts Off On Lemon Education
Education systems are a mess the world over. We know this, but we are dauntless geek parents. When we’re given a lemon situation, we don’t just make lemonade; we make rocket fuel! I don’t actually know if it’s possible or wise to launch a rocket using citrus, but if that’s what it takes to keep […]
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