Teaching Emotion Management: Interpreting Emotions
“My baby cries when placed in her cot. How can I ever put her down calm, sleepy, but awake.” (Said by many mothers, myself included). This is the first of a series on emotion management and sleep. Babies need to develop a range of skills to learn to fall...Teaching emotion management: Helicopter parenting and sleep
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...Feed your baby to sleep – The possums sleep intervention new recommendations
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...Bedtime routine modeling
“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...Sleep solutions from birth
I have a newborn. I remember the enduring sleep deprivation from last time. What can I do from birth to get back to sleeping sooner? Elizabeth Pantley’s No-Cry Sleep Solution recommends specific strategies for meeting baby and family sleep needs from birth. They fit...Hi, I’m Nicky
Hi, I'm Nicky,
A PhD/Masters registered Psychologist, researcher, coach, and Mum. I am using my skills in research to better understand this new, exciting, and sometimes baffling adventure of parenthood. I hope to gain insight, skills, and company along the way.
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