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Healthy sleep habits, happy child a step-by-step program for a good night's sleep

This valuable sourcebook contains research that: outlines the best course of action for sleep problems, prevention and treatment; reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep; explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments; helps you stop the crybaby s...

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Main Author: Weissbluth, Marc.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.
Edition: 3rd ed., completely revised and expanded.
Subjects:
Parent teacher books.
Sleep disorders in children.
Children > Sleep.
Child rearing.
Summary: This valuable sourcebook contains research that: outlines the best course of action for sleep problems, prevention and treatment; reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep; explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments; helps you stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more; Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep--naturally; how to handle "nap-resistant" kids and when to start sleep-training; focuses on "night sleep" and "day sleep (naps); help for working moms and children with sleep issues; expanded discussion on the father's role in comforting children; key studies on how early sleep troubles can lead to later problems; the benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in "the family bed"--Cover.
Physical Description: xxii, 503 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-492) and index.
ISBN: 0449004023 (pbk.)
9780449004029 (pbk.)
Author Notes: A pediatrician with forty years of experience, Marc Weissbluth, M.D. , is also a leading researcher on sleep and children. He founded the original Sleep Disorders Center at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital (now called the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) and is a professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University School of Medicine. In addition to his own research, he has written about sleep problems in manuals of pediatrics, lectured extensively to parent groups, is a regular at the 92nd Street Y, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show . Dr. Weissbluth and his wife of more than fifty years, Linda, have four sons and eight grandchildren. They live in Chicago.


From the Hardcover edition.

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