We've all heard the health benefits of getting a good night's rest.

Getting those magical 8 hours will help you focus, retain information, and fortify your

immune system.

As a parent, if your child is having trouble falling asleep or if they can't sleep through

the night, that can be exhausting.

I had a 2.5 year old and sleeping was not high on her list of priorities.

It would sometimes take me upward of an hour, maybe even 2 hours to get her to go to sleep.

Adam Mansbach is an author and screenwriter.

Back in 2011, he was living in Philadelphia and he was teaching at Rutgers University.

Between his writing and teaching, he didn't have a lot of time for himself or time to spend

with his partner or his 2 year old daughter Vivian.

Those couple hours in the evening are like all you have, so if suddenly you can't get

out of that room because this kid refuses to sleep and refuses to let you leave and if

you leave, you're starting the process over again and if you sneak out too early, you're

starting the process over again because they see you, it's grueling.

Mansbach was feeling frustrated and he was thinking, this isn't a lot of fun.

But as a parent, he felt it was taboo to talk about how aggravating, tiring, and lonely

it can feel to be a parent at times.

So he turned to comedy.

One day, while he was away for work, he was reflecting and he posted something funny

on Facebook.

I wrote the Facebook post as a joke, it was very simple, it was like, look out from my

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