Mark's family had a few other weird ideas that puzzled me a little
bit. One that I was not sure was scientifically sound was that they
would keep their newborn baby boy up and try and not let him sleep
all day so he would sleep through the night. Many times when I went
over there they were jostling the baby or bouncing him to keep him
from falling asleep. Both of the parents would spend hours a day
doing this which made me wonder if all the time they were saving
keeping the baby up might be wasted keeping the baby up. The baby
grew into a toddler in the time that they lived next door but I never
did learn if the sleep deprivation torture worked
