You've heard it many times, probably all day long, your little darling saying "NO" to you, over and over and over again. Although this can be very frustrating for you as a parent, this its actually a good thing.

As a new parent, you may hear a lot about how children’s sleep changes around the four-month mark. Parents often tell us that their once perfect sleeper now wakes frequently throughout the night. We see this shift in baby sleeping patters because at this age two things are happening: a cognitive spurt and a change in baby sleep cycles. People often call this the four-month sleep regression, but we like to think of it as progress, or moving forward.

Now that you are a parent of a little one, who maybe does or does not sleep well, you will come across the term 'SLEEP REGRESSION' a lot!

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When to start sleep training, is different for everyone. No method is one size fits all. However, there is some basic information that could help to smooth the process for both you and your baby and answer some common sleep training questions.

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Overchoice or choice overload is a cognitive process in which people have a difficult time making a decision when faced with many options.

Depending on the time of year that you read this post we will have just passed a holiday that would have for sure, included an over abundance of candy. In our house the cupboards are still crawling with mini chocolate eggs leftover from Easter.

Natural Consequences are an absolutely brilliant way for children to learn on their own, WHEN possible.

When it comes to being able to stay up late a toddler who has napped will outlast their tired parent any day.

Babies may wake for different reasons, like being cold, hungry, needing a diaper change, or simply having to be comforted until they go back asleep.

Sleep training is teaching your baby how to self-soothe and put themselves to bed without being rocked, cuddled, nursed, or swaddled.

1 - 2 - 3 is a discipline technique where we are trying to STOP a behavior. It could also be a case where the child is not listening to direction and you want to give them a chance recorrect, rethink or think about their next step.

You may have noticed your child has naturally stated to wake up earlier and earlier over the past 6 weeks. If you have, this is totally normal! We typically start to see children wake up earlier prior to a time change in both the Spring and the Fall.

If you have never come across it, it's written by John Rosemond (psychologist), and it talks about how marriages are often put under pressure by parents, putting their children first: before their marriage or before each other.

The age range on this transition is quite big, it is anywhere from 12 months to 18 months where a child may be ready to switch to just 1 nap a day.