The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems Author: Visit Amazon's Elizabeth Pantley Page | Language: English | ISBN:
007159695X | Format: EPUB
The No-Cry Nap Solution: Guaranteed Gentle Ways to Solve All Your Naptime Problems Description
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Elizabeth Pantley's insights and practical strategies have helped countless parents around the world. Her ideas are easy to adopt in your home because they are based on common sense, science and the wisdom of experience. She deserves our thanks for providing reassurance and everyday advice and for helping us to become more effective as parents. She inspires us to build homes filled with warmth, love, kindness and respect.
~ Tim Seldin
President, the Montessori Foundation; Chair, The International Montessori Council,
and author of How To Raise An Amazing ChildFrom the Author
I thought I knew everything there was to know about naps, since I've written two other books about children and sleep, but I was shocked and amazed at the new information I discovered while writing this book. I set out on this venture knowing that parents struggle getting their children to nap. Everyone knows that children need naps, but the biological reasons behind this will convince you, without a doubt, that you should do everything you can to provide your baby or young child with daily nap time. It is common knowledge that when a child misses a nap he gets cranky, but you will be intrigued to learn the actual reasons why this happens.
Naps take only a few hours of time, but naps - or lack of naps - shape all
twenty-four hours of your child's day. Naps influence his mood, behavior, health, and even brain development. An appropriate nap schedule is a vital component for your child's healthy, happy life. When you consider all of this, you'll also understand that your child's naps - or lack of naps - can affect all 24 hours of
your day, as well as your child's.
This book will provide you with information about napping and an assortment of solutions that you can pick from to solve all your child's napping problems.
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- Series: Pantley
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 2, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 007159695X
- ISBN-13: 978-0071596954
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Did you know that studies have proven healthy sleep habits for your child now can directly impact their health for the rest of their lives? Or that a child not wanting a nap and not needing a nap are not one in the same?
But let's get real: While our intentions may be great, real life doesn't always allow for step-by-step approaches to getting our kids the daytime rest they need (and the sorely needed breaks we get while they nap!). Crabby kids, relatives popping in unannounced right before nap time, teething, upset bellies, that doctor appointment you can't miss, that 15 minute car nap that ruined little Johnny's afternoon siesta that led to an even more difficult bed time fight because he was so overtired...we've all been there, done that, and were all ready to pull out hair out by the end of the day.
There's a lot of great information in this book for parents of newborns through toddlerhood, and I made plenty of notes while I read. And there was also plenty of information that did not apply to our situation, some of which I skipped entirely and some of which I just skimmed (because I do plan on having another baby eventually!). But that is what is so great about Pantley's book: it's not a one-size-fit-all solution. Whether you co-sleep, nurse-to-sleep, stick to a by-the-clock schedule, or fly by the seat of your pants (like I do), you and your nap-fighting child will benefit greatly from the little bit of time it will take to sit down and read!
A few very important lessons I learned while reading Pantley's book included:
* My daughter needs 12 hours of sleep a night and 1 to 2 hours of nap time per day for 13 to 14 hours of sleep total. Oops! I had been cutting her short by about 2 hours.
Elizabeth Pantley's No-Cry Nap Solution, like her original No-Cry Sleep Solution is packed full of ideas for worn out parents. Pantley is not one to give up on a problem and nor is she is one to go on endlessly about `her philosophy' - Pantley is about practical, creative ideas which can be adapted to your own instincts as a mother. She is the reassuring maternal figure you're searching for as a bewildered new parent, the one who won't undermine your confidence and won't make you think your baby is some kind of failure. Pantley's books are as patient in their problem-solving as the sleepless night is long.
The No-Cry Nap Solution covers all the usual infant and toddler sleep pattern information and then moves on to tackling some thorny napping problems - catnaps, nap resistance, shifting schedules, changing from in-arms sleep to in-bed sleep, changing car naps to bed naps, making the transition from motion sleep to stationary sleep, and falling asleep without the nipple/bottle/dummy. The book has really hit the mark with its smorgasbord of nap problems and I'd be surprised if you're experiencing a nap problem that isn't covered here. Apart from raising four kids herself, all that research Pantley has done with parents around the world has paid off!
I read this book free of the fog of sleep deprivation, and there was a point I reached where I found myself thinking lighten up mothers, let it go, it all eventually turns out ok, you don't need to be so damn obsessive about your baby's sleep. And you know what, this thought could only ever be entertained by someone who is getting enough sleep in her life and you know what else?
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