Summary:
- Outlines the problems related to bedtime for children from infancy through middle school and gives you advice and tips on how to handle them.
- Provides several options so you can choose the approach you feel most comfortable with. getting their children to go to bed.
- Covers specific issues with helping children from infants to toddlers, preschoolers, elementary schoolers, middle schoolers and beyond.
- Emphasizes the importance of building good sleep habits, and warns parents that children of all ages are always learning--and therefore responding to their excessive crying, defiance, attempts to leave the bedroom, and other activities with an abundance of warmth or gentleness will create positive reinforcement for the negative behavior of resisting bedtime!
- Walks the reader through time-tested procedures to help children get their sleep, including "cold turky" and graduated methods for tuning out nighttime crying, and the "robotic return" method for dealing with a child who wanders out of bed (return the child silently and emotionlessly and say nothing, so as not to associate comfort or other positive responses to a child deliberately leaving the bedroom).
- A brief discussion of problems such as bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking rounds out this straightforward, problem-solving guide, which points parents to a list of resources for further reading as needed.
BOOK: Solve Your Child's Sleep
Author: Richard Ferber
Summary:
- Offers safe, sound ideas for helping your child fall and stay asleep at night and perform well during the day.
- Provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood.
- Topics covered in detail include:
- Bedtime difficulties and nighttime wakings
- Effective strategies for naps
- Sleep schedule abnormalities
- A balanced look at co-sleeping
- New insights into the nature of sleep terrors and sleepwalking
- Problems in setting limits
- Sleep apnea, narcolepsy, bed-wetting, and head banging
BOOK: Little People – Guidelines for Common Sense Child Rearing
Author: Dr. Edward r. Christophersen
Summary:
- “Catch ‘em being good,” is one of Dr. Christophersen’s favorite pieces of advice.
- Built around guidelines that will help you to encourage your child’s positive behavior.
- Discusses the importance of touching to support a child’s emotional development and self-esteem.
- Advice is also given that comfort parents by discussing what is normal and acceptable behavior.
BOOK: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
Author: Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson & David J. Bredehoft
Summary:
- Explains how giving children too much, over-nurturing them, and providing them with soft structure will prevent them from learning many of the important life skills they need to become happy, healthy adults.
- Smart advice, real-life stories, and effective strategies you need to know to avoid—or repair—the damage overindulgence causes, including:
- How to figure out if you’re being overindulgent and ways to act differently
- How to teach your child what "enough" means
- Tips on establishing firm rules and structure
- How to instill responsibility and independence in your kids
- What to do when friends or family overindulge your kids
- How to break the cycle if you were overindulged as a child
BOOK: Common Sense Parenting of Toddlers & Preschoolers
Author: Bridget A. Barnes and Steven M. York, M.H.D.
Summary:
- Shows parents how discipline can be more about teaching than punishment and more positive than negative for both you and your child.
- How to set reasonable expectations based on your child's age, development, and abilities.
- How to use a parent's version of "show and tell" to both prevent problems and correct misbehavior.
- How to use praise like a compass, helping your child stay on the right path.
- How to create plans for staying calm for you and your child.
- How to use consistency, consequences, and practice to help your child learn what you expect of him or her.
- How to celebrate special rituals and everyday routines as cherished family traditions
BOOK: Raising a Good Kid (chances are you’re doing just fine)
Author: John F. Smith
Summary:
Despite all your worries, chances are you're doing just fine raising a good kid. Not a "how-to" or "what you're doing wrong" book, but rather a reassuring, confidence-builder which addresses the issues parents are most concerned about - character, achievement, school, sexuality, and faith. 128 pages
