Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409003267
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

A step-by-step programme for a good night's sleep

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2 Aug 2010
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1 Jun 2005
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The perennial favourite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease

In this completely revised and expanded edition, Dr Marc Weissbluth - a leading paediatrician - updates his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing children's sleep problems, from infancy through to adolescence.

In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for parents for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of their child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook outlines the best course of action for sleep problems: prevention and treatment; reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep; helps stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares and bedwetting and provides new material on:
- how to handle 'nap-resistant' kids and when to start sleep training
- help for working mums and children with sleep issues
- the father's role in comforting children
- the benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in the family bed
And much more.

Rest is vital to children's health, growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age.
  • Published: 2 August 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409003267
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528
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About the author

Marc Weissbluth

A paediatrician for thirty years, Dr Marc Weissbluth is also a leading researcher on sleep and children. He founded the original Sleep Disorders Center at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital in 1985 and is a professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Northwestern University School of Medicine. His landmark seven-year study on the development and disappearance of naps highlighted the importance of daytime sleep. In addition to his own research, he had lectured extensively to parent groups and has appeared on Oprah.

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Praise for Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

I love Dr. Weissbluth' s philosophy that the most important thing to have is a well-rested family. And fortunately, thanks to this book, most days (and nights) we do!

Cindy Crawford