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How a Good Night’s Sleep Improves Grades
How’s your child doing in school? An improvement in his grades may be no further away than a good night’s sleep. Sleep is a complex process with many stages including drowsiness, moderate sleep, deep restorative sleep, [...]
What to Do When Your Child Sleepwalks
Did you sleepwalk as a child? Then chances are your child will be a sleep walker too! Sleepwalking. As strange as a phenomenon as it is, it’s one which is relatively common. Studies tell us that [...]
Bedtime Routines
Why parents may want to create a bedtime routine for their babies. Bedtime Routines In the first year of a child’s life babies need anywhere from 13 to 15 hours of sleep each day, including naptime. [...]
Why Teddy Bears Help Babies Sleep
Your child’s blanket or teddy bear may be the ticket to a good night rest for your child, and for yourself! Although by six months of age most babies are capable of sleeping a solid eight [...]
Getting Children to Sleep Without a Bedtime Battle
Those bedtime battles. Believe it or not, there are ways to tuck in a tired toddler without it turning into a power struggle. Most of us have been through those bedtime battles, when tucking in a [...]
Teaching A Baby to Sleep Through the Night
Is your infant keeping you up all hours of the day and night? The time may have come to teach your child to sleep through the night. In the first year and a half of a [...]
Sleep and Good Parenting
How a little extra shut eye could make you an even better parent. Sleep & Good Parenting Because it is so difficult to accomplish all of the things we need to in a day, many of [...]
How Sleep Affects Education
The connection between adequate sleep and good grades. Sleep and Education How many hours of sleep is your child getting? If your answer is 8, then chances are your child isn’t getting enough sleep. In fact, [...]
3 Signs Your Child Has Outgrown Naps
Is your toddler or preschooler refusing to take a nap? It’s probably the first of 3 signs that your little one no longer needs the extra sleep. Most toddlers and many preschoolers have at least one [...]
Signs that Your Child No Longer Needs Naps
How to tell if your child is ready to give up naptime. Outgrowing Nap-Time By the time babies are three months old, they’ve settled into a more regular sleep pattern, generally sleeping longer periods at night. [...]
