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Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep
Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child A StepbyStep Program for a Good Night's Sleep
Author: Marc Weissbluth
One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems — Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains wit...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780449004029
ISBN-10: 0449004023
Publication Date: 4/12/1999
Pages: 345
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 166 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 8
This book dramatically influenced my understanding of childhood crankies. It also changed my view of naps and bedtimes. I can honestly say that when the naps ceased, it was a natural process that I understood because of reading this book.
Did I implement everything? NO! Did it help us move more gracefully through childhood? Absolutely!
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Helpful Score: 7
Interesting sleep studies.... poor answers to solving the problems. Letting a child cry does nothing but teach them the opposite of what you strive to achieve during the day- that they can't trust their parents. Dr William Sears' Nighttime Parenting or Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleap Solution is a better option
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Helpful Score: 4
A bit harsh for my taste.
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Helpful Score: 2
It's the author's way or you're wrong. Not much leeway.
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Helpful Score: 1
I agreed with much of what the author discussed. Critique of several sleep theories is included and the overall technique recommended makes complete sense.
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reviewed Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep on + 3 more book reviews
This book is hands-down the best book on helping your child to sleep. I have used it for different stages of my children's sleep through four children and have loaned it out to my friends as well. One of my friends had twins , and now has four children and so I've given her my copy and got an updated copy for myself!
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The theories on sleep in this book make a lot of logical sence. I've read it and am currently implementing the napping strategies (in combination with Babywise techniques) with my three-month-old daughter. Hopefully we are on the way to developing a regular nap schedule for her which will bring me some sanity and her some much-needed sleep! It is difficult to let your baby cry during naptime when they refuse to sleep, but for me, the alternative was an extremely cranky baby by evening. She would cry so hard after a napless day that I could hardly console her. She would eventually exhaust herself crying in my arms and fall asleep. What a nightmare! I'd rather endure the torture of letting her cry a few minutes in her crib with each nap than for an hour every evening while doing everything under the sun to console her to no avail. Those who say you should never let your baby cry must have had children who napped well on their own. For the rest of us whose babies would rather play than sleep and do not nap without guidance, the strategies in this book will serve you well.


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