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2.0 out of 5 stars
An ok book for a topic I found very few books on., August 23, 2010
This review is from: It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed (The Transition Times Series) (Hardcover)
Books can help teach a child that doing a task is ok and fun. My daughter had her favorite books for learning to use the potty and they really helped her learn quickly. I was hoping that with this book I could help her transition from mommy and daddys bed and into her own bed. This book touches on it, but doesn't have enough excitement or explain the benefits of sleeping in their own bed. I even felt that it added more anxiety because there are phrases like "How am I ever going to sleep in THIS bed" or saying how he was alone in his bed and wanted to get back into mommy and daddys bed. It also starts out with saying how much fun the parents bed is and how special it is, which just helps give them reasons why they would want to STAY in there, insted of getting out! I would like to see it paint a picture of how uncomfortable mommys bed is, and how nice and comfy and spacious the childs bed is. Also explain that their room is fun, give them ownership of it, and dont mention the scary parts of it! It even says how he held his stuffed animal, but it "wasn't the same as cuddling with mommy". That I think just helps to add a negative idea, that their stuffed animal isnt good enough. It does give you ideas and tips in the back of the book of how to help the transition which is good, but really what I was hoping for was a solid, fun, uplifitng book that would make my daughter feel like this was something she could do, and it would be fun.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Fails in the end, May 8, 2011
This review is from: It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed (The Transition Times Series) (Hardcover)
This book has cute pictures and starts off well, but ultimately fails to deliver a compelling message. It portrays being in the parents bed as a lovely thing and then tells the child to stay in their own bed essentially because they should (not very motivating to a toddler!). It also fails to address night waking at all--acting as if once the kid falls asleep in his own bed he'll sleep straight through the night until morning and all is well with the world. I wish this book at least told kids they could still play and snuggle with their parents (possibly in the parents bed) in the morning and before bedtime so it didn't feel so black and white like they're now shut out of wonderland. I also wish it showed a night waking with kiddo having trouble getting back to sleep but succeeding.
Unfortunately I haven't found a better boom that directly addresses the move from parent's bed to solo bed. "Mommy I Want to Sleep in YOUR Bed" is the only other one I found that is directly on point and it too has a major failing in the end of the book. The book "How Will I Ever Sleep in This Bed?" is a nice one showing a little girl trying to find a way to sleep in her new big bed by bringing tons and tons of stuffed animals into the bed and ten kicking them out when there's no room for her. That book doesn't include the parents or any reference to what type of bed she slept in before so it's pretty flexible and just focuses on the bigness of the bed and she's clearly alone(though they never directly discuss her being fearful, it's just implied by her quest to fill the bed).
I ended up making a photo book online that shows pictures of my daughter sleeping as a newborn, baby, toddler, and so on. The words talk about where she slept at each stage of life as shegrew bigger and bigger. Then it says it's time or her to sleep all night in her own bed so she and mommy and daddy all have energy to play in the morning. It says she can come to our bed in the morning when her wake up clock turns green. And it says she's safe wherever she's sleepong and who is with her, showing pics of her sleeping at grandma's house, in our bed, on the floor, in the car seat, etc. She likes the book and the wake up clock light is helpful.
Good luck parents!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful book to introduce or reinforce transition from cosleeping to twin bed, November 17, 2009
This review is from: It's Time to Sleep in Your Own Bed (The Transition Times Series) (Hardcover)
Good illustrations. Clear, somewhat realistic illustrations. The child in the book does show alot of hesitation and wakes up the first night upset only to be reassured by his parents but left in his bed. I would have liked some part of the story to show the child wanting to go to his own bed instead of all of his parents idea and for him to voluntarily like it and be excited about it. Instead the idea is the parents and the child's excitement is completely expressed about happiess in receiving a success cetificate after sleeping in his own bed. The child in the story is a boy but I am sure it would work for a girl too.
Since this book is for children who are probably not reading on their own yet, one can change the words to be more representative of your own child's experience. I didn't even uss the title, just presented it as a story of a child who is learning to received a big bed, was excited about it and was learning to sleep on his own. I shortened to "Sleeping in your own bed". We also talked about our son's bunkbeds v. the single twin bed illustrated and the different decorating scheme so that he is more excited about his own room. Anyway, our son isn't very excited about the book but I think that is a reflection that he is not ready to sleep in his bed by himself all of the time yet. He still goes to sleep in mine frequently or ends up in our bed at some point during the night. I think it is a more gradual process than presented in the book and we are ok with that.
I liked the book as a way to present another child's experience and to paint a picture of what it is like. By reading the book and looking at the pictures together we also made the opportunity to talk about it together and let him verbalize how he was feeling. He identified and like the part that when the child in the story cried out for his parents they came right in to reassure him.
So overall, imperfect, not exactly what we are doing or our experience but still helpful and glad we read it. Liked the illustrations.
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