by Nicole Weeks | Aug 29, 2014 | Baby, Blog, Development, Preschooler, Sleep, Toddler |
How parents respond to emotional displays like tantrums, kicking, hitting, smashing, and yelling is important for building children’s ability to control their emotions. Controlling emotions, and particularly the ability to calm down, is important for sleep. The... by Nicole Weeks | Aug 25, 2014 | Baby, Blog, Sleep, Toddler |
Don’t feed or rock your baby to sleep is common advice. A new take on the same theory suggests that this advice is flawed. As detailed here, the dominant theory is that feeding or rocking can become associated with sleep. The concern is that the parent is then... by Nicole Weeks | Aug 2, 2014 | Baby, Blog, Preschooler, Sleep, Toddler |
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Robert Fulghum (according to BrainyQuote.com) For an audio version of this post, and a video demonstration of modelling see...