Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years

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Chapter 14: Helping Children Sleep
Sleep is a core issue in parenting. It is one of the first areas where we grapple with the reality that there are things about our children that we cannot control. As parents, we can set the stage for relaxation, but we cannot force children to sleep.

Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively first-person stories, the authors address the many dilemmas and joys that the parent of young children encounter and demonstrate a range of solutions to the major issues that arise in the raising of babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Full of warmth, clarity, humor, and respect, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be gives parents permission to be human: to question, to learn, to make mistakes, to struggle and to grow, and, most of all, to have fun with their children.

Laura Davis is a nationally known lecturer and workshop leader. She is the co-author, with Ellen Bass, of The Courage to Heal and Beginning to Heal and the author of The Courage to Heal Workbook and Allies in Healing. Her books have been published in nine languages and have sold over 1.5 million copies. Davis is the stepmother of a young adult and the parent of a five-year-old and a toddler.

Janis Keyser is a teacher, parent educator, program director and speaker who specializes in Early Childhood Development. She teaches full time in the Early Childhood Education Department at Cabrillo College and has been conducting parenting workshops for over 20 years. She is a nationally recognized speaker at parenting, family and child development conferences.

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