This is the first revised edition of the book that has provided solutions for an entire generation of worried parents fretting over their child's sleep problems. You know the scenario: Parents try everything, from warm milk, bedtime stories, even sharing their bed - and still their child has problems falling asleep. And you can be sure that if their child isn't sleeping, the parents aren't either. 'Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems' - a manual essential to parents everywhere for the past twenty years - offers priceless advice and concret help when lullabies aren't enough.
Dr Ferber strongly believe that one size does not fit all when it comes to children and sleep, and so his practical, easy-to-understand book non-judgmentally addresses a wide range of sleeping problems for children between birth and adolescence. He offers guidance on and solutions for a wide variety of problems, including night waking, difficulty sleeping, bedwetting, head banging, body rocking, colic, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking. New parents will benefit from Ferber's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. Also included is a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming.
There are new issues that have emerged with the changing times, such as: Special problems with twins and multiples; sleep disruption due to travel through time zones and television and computers in children's bedrooms.
