Books - Children and Sleep

Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
By Dr. Richard Ferber
You've tried everything. Warm milk. Bedtime stories. Sharing your bed. But your child still has problems falling asleep. Dr. Richard Ferber can help. Director of the Sleep Laboratory and Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Ferber is widely recognized as the nation's leading authority on children's sleep problems. Practical and easy to understand, Solve Your Childs' Sleep Problems tells you how to handle these situations in children aged one to six. Available in Paperback

Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddler, and Their Parents Can Get A Good Night's Sleep
By Jodi A. Mindell
Drawing on her ten years of experience in the assessment and treatment of common sleep problems in children, Dr. Jodi A. Mindell now provides tips and techniques, the answers to commonly asked questions, and case studies and quotes from parents who have successfully solved their children's sleep problems. Unlike other books on the subject, Dr. Mindell also offers practical tips on bedtime, rather than middle-of-the-night-sleep training, and shows how all members of the family can cope with the stresses associated with teaching a child to sleep. Available in Paperback

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
By Marc Weissbluth
The child care classic is now totally revised and updated as Dr. Weissbluth, a leading researcher on sleep and children, promotes a revolutionary program to ensure healthy, happy sleep for a child--both at night and during equally important daytime naps. He offers dozens of anecdotes and new case histories of children with various sleep disorders and the prescribed methods of therapy. Available in Paperback

Is My Child Overtired?: The Sleep Solution for Raising Happier, Healthier Children
By William Wilkoff, M.D.
More and more often, bedtime is a battle that parents just don't have the energy to fight. With the demands of juggling work, running a household, and raising kids, it is easy for parents to be lax about their children's sleep habits. They may not realize that fatigue is the number-one cause of health and behavioral problems, and it is frequently overlooked. If you find that your kids are often cranky, hyperactive, or prone to headaches and growing pains, these are red flags that they may be overtired. Available in Paperback

Baby & Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night
By John Pearce, M.D., Jane Bidder
Here's an easy-to-follow program to make bedtime a stress-free time for you and your child. Written for tired parents across North America by a child psychiatrist and professor, this amazing baby and toddler sleep program helps take the agony out of bedtime. With proven success, it helps you and your family create a calm and peaceful sleep routine (even for very young children). Helpful techniques and tips take you step-by-step toward a full night's sleep. Available in Paperback

Silent Nights : Overcoming Sleep Problems in Babies and Children
By Brian Symon
Few sounds are more disconcerting than that of a crying infant unable to sleep, particularly in the middle of the night when the parents know what the baby -- and what they -- really need is sleep. Many new parents experience anxious nights with sleepless children. Families are forced to endure months or even years of insomnia due to their children's habitual inability to sleep, often with considerable consequences for the parents' sense of well-being, and in some cases for the health of marriages and working lives. This book provides a sensible guide to how babies sleep and why they cry. It demonstrates how this knowledge can be applied in practical ways to help the normal, healthy baby establish sleeping patterns that will improve his or her life and benefit the entire family. Families following the program outlined in this book will find a good night's sleep is no longer an impossible dream. Available in Paperback

Remmy and the Brain Train
Dr. James B. Maas
Remmy and the Brain Train follows young Remmy through a groggy day of exhaustion and confusion after many nights of too little sleep. The tired boy, otherwise smart and quick, has trouble with math, spelling, and remembering names, and is feeling moody, upset, and sad...but does not know why. That very night Remmy is visited by an irrepressible magical train conductor, Doctor Zeez, who whisks him off on a thrilling adventure through the Land of Good Sleep. Here Remmy learns of the fantastic voyages his mind and body embark on every time he goes to sleep, and how developing good sleeping habits makes him stronger, smarter, happier, and healthier. Remmy and the Brain Train is an exciting, innovative and scientifically accurate book that is not only a useful tool for parents and teachers, but a thought-provoking and rousing story for children ages 4-8. Included with the book is a read-along, sing-along CD with a myriad of sound effects to support the detailed illustrations. Available in Hardcover

Sleep : How to Teach Your Child to Sleep Like a Baby
By Tamara Eberlein
A good night's rest is essential for everyone in the family, and Sleep offers real-world solutions for parents whose children don't sleep well. Focused and easy to read, this guide compiles what the experts from diverse schools of thought have to say about helping your child sleep through the night--allowing you to choose the methods that will work best for your family. Available in Paperback

Sleep Better! : A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children With Special Needs
By Vincent Mark Durand
When children have recurrent sleep problems, they and their families must deal with negative effects on behavior, mood, social interactions, physical stamina, step-by-step, "how to" instructions for helping children with disabilities get the rest they need. For problems ranging from bedtime tantrums to night waking, parents and caregivers will find a variety of widely tested and easy-to-implement techniques that have already helped hundreds of children with special needs - especially children with autism, Tourette syndrome, and cerebral palsy.

Written by a psychologist who was inspired by many sleepless nights with his own child, this book delivers proven techniques from the author's clinical and personal experience, making it a one-of-a-kind resource for families and professionals. Available in Paperback

American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Sleep: Birth Through Adolescence
By American Academy of Pediatrics, George Cohen (editor)
The foremost medical authority on children's health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, has collected in these pages the best advice on getting newborns, toddlers, and school-age children to sleep. Packed with practical tips, this guide offers invaluable information, answers questions from parents, and provides reassuring ad-vice for preventing SIDS, getting your baby to sleep through the night, and solving sleep-wake problems. Above all, the Academy weighs in on the controversies over the most popular child-sleep advice--by evaluating the pros and cons of these conflicting theories--enabling parents to make the best decisions for their families.

Here, in a compact and accessible package, is information to ensure that even the most bleary-eyed parents and their children get a good night's sleep. Available in Paperback

Sweet Dreams: A Pediatrician's Secrets for Baby's Good Night's Sleep
by Paul Fleiss M.D.
Most new parents quickly and sadly discover the difficulty of getting a child first to go to sleep, and then to sleep throughout the night. Dr. Fleiss, a noted family pediatrician for more than 30 years, shares his secrets for discovering a child's natural sleep patterns, developing positive bedtime rituals, nutritional and lifestyle aids to sleep, and how co-sleeping affects normal growth and development. Available in Paperback

Sleeping Like A Baby: A Sensitive and Sensible Approach to Solving Your Child's Sleep Problems
By Avi Sadeh
Why doesn't my baby sleep better?" weary parents ask. "How can we get more sleep?" There are as many answers to these questions as there are babies and families, says Dr. Avi Sadeh in this helpful and reassuring (some may say indispensable) book. Based on his years of research with sleep-disturbed babies and their sleep-deprived parents, Dr. Sadeh suggests a wide variety of practical solutions to babies' and young children's sleep problems.

Other experts may recommend one strict approach to changing a baby's sleep habits, but a single remedy fails to take into account a baby's uniqueness and the dynamics of his or her family, Dr. Sadeh contends. He helps parents first to understand the natural sleep patterns of babies, and then to consider their own family's situation and needs. In an accessible style designed to ease anxious parents' worries, Dr. Sadeh describes the various sleep problems of early childhood, outlines treatment possibilities, and details the pros and cons of each of these choices.

This book will appeal not only to sleepless parents seeking relief but also to those who are curious about the most recent findings in children's sleep research. Dr. Sadeh addresses a full range of questions: What is the importance of sleep to a baby? How do babies in different cultures sleep? How is sleep related to development? What causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? How do babies calm themselves? What are the advantages and disadvantages of communal sleeping? With up-to-date answers to these questions and more, Dr. Sadeh offers parents and professionals all the information they need to help babies-and their families-sleep better. Available in Hardcover

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