This technique involves you sleeping in a sleeping bag or on a mattress in your toddler’s room. Over a few nights, sleep further and further away from your child’s bed until your toddler can fall asleep without you there. Placing a mattress on the floor right next to the bed or addin...
Sleeping patterns are often affected by what's going on in our lives - that goes for adults as well as children. By now, both parents have probably returned to work after parental leave. Maybe you've changed jobs that requires you to travel a lot, or you were working from home and hav...
Navigating bedtime can be especially difficult if your toddler is scared of sleeping alone or making the transition from a crib or out of your room into their own. Do your best to figure out the real issue. “It’s important to try to understand your toddler’s fear,” says Abelowitz. ...
), insomnia, transitioning from co-sleeping or crib to bed, night terrors, and nightmares, just to name a few. Not all children outgrow their sleep problems. Good sleep is a key component of your toddler’s development, behavior, happy children, and happy parents.Let’s face it: cranky ...
If your child is still napping intermittently, this is the perfect opportunity to continue the naptime routine, and give your child the option of playing or reading quietly if they do not feel like sleeping. Author:Kim West, MSW, Mom of 2, creator of The Sleep Lady Shuffle ...
They used to be far apart, but now have been happening a lot more. She just all of a sudden turns red and gets really sweaty, growls continuously, drools uncontrollably, and shakes and makes fists, tries to grab on to me or whatever is nearby and squeezes it, she cries nonstop, she...
Hacker Exploits a Baby Monitor to Spy on and Insult a Toddler Owners of Foscam baby monitors beware: At least one hacker has exploited security vulnerabilities in the device to spy on sleeping children. By Fox Van Allen on August 14, 2013 ...
toddler is staying awake 5 hours and sleeping 11-12 hours at night, use one of the one-nap schedules above for 15-17-month-olds.This schedule illustrates a common schedule if your toddler wakes up earlier, stays awake 5 1/2 hours both before and after their nap, and takes a 2-hour ...
A sleep regression is where a child who had been sleeping perfectly fine previously, suddenly has a period of poor sleep seemingly out of the blue. This poor sleep might manifest itself in any of the following ways: early morning wakes, bedtime resistance, nap refusal, short naps, middle of...
Talk about it.Talking about friends, older siblings or cousins who sleep in big kid beds can help your little one get excited about sleeping in a big kid bed, too. Read about it.You can help prepare your toddler by reading books about moving from a crib to a big kid bed. We loveBig...