Baby and Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night [Illustrated] [Paperback]

John Pearce (Author), Jane Bidder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1999

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 nights sleep,

This is an accessible book for tired and frazzled parents (particularly those new to parenting).It gives parents the know-how to be firm, even with a four-year-old. Charts and boxes help make the reading quick and easy.

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About the Author

Jane Bidder has been journalist for more than 20 years. She has been a regular contributor to British magazines and newspaper including Woman, Woman & Home, The Times and The Daily Telegraph. She is married with 3 children.

John Pearce, M.D., has written a wide range of practical books for parents. He speaks at national and international conferences on childcare issues and is a member of numerous professional organizations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Fisher Books; 1 edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555611753
• ISBN-13: 978-1555611750
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,292,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A terrible idea!, April 1, 2001

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"anonymouse2000" (Winnipeg Manitoba Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby and Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night (Paperback)

If you are looking for a book on selfisness, this is it! As new parents, my wife and I were looking for something like this to get our son to sleep through the night. We made the double mistake of; a, buying this book and b, trying out the ideas in it. After a few nights of staying up, listening to our frightened child cry for his parents (and all of us getting less sleep than before I might add) we tossed out the book and went back to our old sleep patterns. So what if your child doesn't sleep through the night? Do you? Each and every night? Not likely. Everyone is different and what most new parents don't need is to be shamed into thinking this is the best system for them (see pages 77-78) he says 'shame' so many times I lost count! Save your money. Listen to your child and to your heart instead, belive me your can't go wrong that way!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally, A Good Nights Sleep!, October 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby and Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night (Paperback)

I'm a first time parent and I have been having trouble with my eight month old waking up in the middle of the night, and not falling back to sleep on his own. I initially chose this book because it looked easy to read and was relatively short (I don't have alot of extra time for reading). I already had an idea of what my husband and I had done and what we were doing wrong. This book confirmed my thoughts and reinforced my beliefs about how to fix the problem. The book also helped me to convince my husband that waking up in the night is normal for a baby (and everyone else), that it is best not to rush in and pick him up as soon as he cries, and it is o.k. to let him cry for awhile. I know I would have had a hard time getting my husband to read a longer, more complicated and technical book. After only one night of following the advice in the book, my son fell back to sleep on his own and I had the best nights sleep that I've had in eight months! We did not have a major sleep problem, and some of the information is common sense, however, the book let me, a first time parent, know that my problem was not out of the ordinary and that my instincts about babies and sleep were correct. The book also offered additional information about sleep of which I was unaware, that will help with this baby now and in the future, and gave advice that I will definately follow in getting a second child off to the right start sleep-wise.

18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book's not worth the paper it's printed on!, January 4, 2002

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"mommabear_417" (TAFB, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby and Toddler Sleep Program: How to Get Your Child to Sleep Through the Night, Every Night (Paperback)

I only gave the book one star, because zero stars was not an option!

Any book that advocates shutting your child in the room and not checking on them until morning is not only medically unsound, but also cruel. You'd be better off reading Dr.'s Ferber or Sears.