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Spring Forward 2024: Daylight Savings Time Sleep Tips for Adjusting Schedules

Spring Forward 2024: Daylight Savings Time Sleep Tips for Adjusting Schedules

As Daylight Saving Time approaches, the thought of adjusting your child's sleep routine can be daunting. Fear not! Our guide offers simple, effective strategies to ensure your child smoothly transitions to the new schedule, ensuring peace and uninterrupted sleep for the whole family.

What is the Best Schedule for an 8 Month Old?

What is the Best Schedule for an 8 Month Old?

It can be challenging to navigate the many tips and tricks out there, so I'm here to offer some guidance on how to get your baby sleeping through the night and taking restful naps.

How to Handle Sleep Regressions When Your Child Becomes an Older Sibling

How to Handle Sleep Regressions When Your Child Becomes an Older Sibling

Big life changes often come with a heaping side of sleep disruptions. Senior Sleep Consultant Meg Meadows has been through this herself with her children. In this post, she provides tried and true tips to help you prepare your child for big life changes so they can keep the sleep (and so can you!)

Strategies to Help Your Child Relax at Bedtime and Overnight

Strategies to Help Your Child Relax at Bedtime and Overnight

Senior Sleep Consultant Marian van Noppen provides child relaxation techniques for separation anxiety and bedtime stress at night. Learn how to help your child put themselves back to sleep with your guidance, starting with the most supportive approach and providing more distance as trust is gained.

Attachment and Attunement

Attachment and Attunement

Many parents might be turned off by the bad reputation attachment parenting gets. But attachment and attunement can work together to build greater trust and confidence in your child, even when it comes to sleep!⁠

If you've been needing a confidence boost to help your child develop more independence, read this guest post by Senior Sleep Consultant Meg Meadows.

When It's Time to Ditch the Paci and How to Do It

When It's Time to Ditch the Paci and How to Do It

Pacifiers can be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, they can be soothing and even help to prevent SIDS during the first 6 months of a baby’s life. But on the other hand, they can wreak havoc on a child’s sleep — and that affects everything. Sleep Squad Consultant Stacey Mademann has the tips you need for recognizing when it’s time to get rid of the pacifier and the ways to make it happen.

Befriending the Scaries at Bedtime

Befriending the Scaries at Bedtime

Children’s imaginations can run wild — and for good reason! They’re starting to develop abstract thought. But when fantastical thoughts start to affect bedtime, you need a plan for how to help your child through it. Read this guest blog by Sleep Squad member Marian van Noppen for her tips on how to befriend the bedtime scaries.

How to Manage Naps with Multiple Children

How to Manage Naps with Multiple Children

If you have multiple kiddos, you know the struggle of getting them down for naptime all too well. Read this guest post by Sleep Squad consultant Myrte Dikmans to learn her tips and tricks on how she gets her two little ones down for their naps while keeping the peace — and the sleep!