Help Your Baby “Sleep Through The Night”

If you are in the minority and choose not to then there seem to be lots of newborn and baby sleep support but I felt lost when it came to my toddler’s sleep.

Is your toddler stalling bedtime by asking for snacks? I know a lot of parents might think this is a manipulation tactic, but I don’t look at it that way.

If you have been following me for a while, by now you probably know you can’t spoil a baby. We hear so much about how it is okay to support your baby to sleep. But I want you to know, it is okay to support your toddlers and bigger kids too! Toddlers don’t necessarily stop […]

Setting limits and boundaries around nursing, sleep, etc. can be really hard! I bet most of us were raised with more of an “authoritarian” style of parenting where we were expected to obey and not show much emotion or protest. If you’re trying to raise your child with more of an “authoritative” style, this means you will have high empathy and warmth and take your child’s thoughts and feelings into consideration while ALSO having high expectations of them and setting appropriate limits.

So, you have a toddler who won’t nap anymore, BUT, they are also a level-5 disaster by dinner time. Sound familiar? This can be one of the hardest transitions in the first few years of parenthood because it is largely a battle of wills. We want them to nap. They seem to NEED to nap. […]

It’s not necessarily the screen time that’s terrible, but the fact that it takes the place of the real work of childhood, which is play and exploration.

When I taught Kindergarten, we referred to the afternoon period after lunch as “rest time.” My little cutie 4 and 5-year-olds would grab a blanky and pillow plus their little bin of books and find a cozy spot. I’d turn the lights down and play soft classical music. About 99% of them fell asleep even though they SWORE they weren’t sleeping but just “resting their eyes.”