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Sleep and Pacifier Use
My 6 month old used to sleep through the night until a few weeks ago. Now he wakes up at least 3 or 4 times whenever his soother falls out! All I need to do is put it back in and sure enough he goes right...
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The Nap-Resister: When Your Child Needs a Nap but Won’t Take One
Daytime naps might last just a few short hours, but they can affect all twenty-four hours of a child’s day. Naps can improve a child’s...
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Behavioural Night Wakings in Young Children
Night wakings in young children (and even adults) are very common and often the result of ‘poor’ or negative learned sleep associations...
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Sleep Terrors or Nightmares: What Parents Can Do
If you are still trying to figure out whether your child is experiencing sleep terrors or nightmares, see: Sleep Terrors and Nightmares: How Can You...
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Sleep Terrors or Nightmares: How Can You Tell?
Understandably, parents are often confused whether their child, who is waking visibly upset during the night, may be having a nightmare or a sleep...
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The Volcano Effect: Why Skipping a Nap Results in Meltdown
From the moment your child wakes in the morning he is slowly using up the benefits of the previous night’s sleep. He wakes up totally...
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A Parents’ Easy Guide to Hypnotherapy and EFT
When my oldest daughter was five, she suddenly became afraid of drains; she was convinced she would be sucked down and drown. When she woke up...
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Let Your Sleeping Baby Sleep!
When your baby wakes in the middle of the night, you probably have a routine to get him back to sleep. For Coleton and I, it was breastfeeding. I used to nurse him until he was totally asleep. Every hour, we had...
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Nighttime Parenting - Babies and Sleep
I have come to the conclusion that there is a very real difference between day and nighttime parenting. Although most parents feel fairly confident within the first few months as day time parents, feeling...
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Bedtime for Toddlers: Ten Steps to Sleep Without Tears
Toddlers don't seem to have an off switch. Often, when they're tired, they just reverberate faster, like an overwound toy, until they...
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Fear of the Dark
I was afraid of the dark as a child. The moment my head hit the pillow at bedtime I was sure I could hear pounding footsteps coming towards me, at the time, I was convinced a monster was coming up the...
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Pacifiers: Another Possible Cause of Ear Infection
DEAR DR.PAUL: I just read that a recent study suggested that children who use pacifiers get more ear infections. Is this true? Can anything...
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Button Down Healthy Sleep Habits for Special Needs Kids
More children than ever before are being diagnosed with special needs "neurobiological disorders" such as ADHD, clinical depression...
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Eight Best Sleep Strategies: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Sleep scientists have identified eight sleep strategies that are effective in encouraging healthy sleep habits in babies and young...
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Go to Sleep!
If you were to take a poll of the number of Canadian parents who were awake late last night, you might be surprised. They weren't up past their bedtime because of an interesting movie on TV or because of a...
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