The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers: Gentle Ways to Stop Bedtime Battles and Improve Your Child's Sleep »

Elizabeth Pantley is the author of the parenting classic The No-Cry Sleep Solution as well as Gentle Baby Care, Perfect Parenting, Hidden Messages, and Kid Cooperation. She is frequently quoted as a parenting expert and is the mother of four great sleepers.

"A good night's sleep is within reach. Let the great ideas in this book guide you and your child there . . . lovingly."
—Harvey Karp, M.D., author of The Happiest Toddler on the Block

Your toddler isn't sleeping through the night. Your preschooler battles bedtime. And you haven't had a good night's sleep in how many years? Get the rest you all desperately need with advice found in The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers.

Elizabeth Pantley's beloved parenting classic The No-Cry Sleep Solution has helped hundreds of thousands of parents gently coax their babies to sleep. Now she gives you tools to help your one- to six-year-old child get in bed, stay in bed, and sleep all night by providing no-cry solutions for

• Bedtime battles, dawdling, and evening meltdowns
• Night waking and early rising
• Moving out of the crib and into a big-kid bed
• Graduating from the family bed to independent sleep
• Ending the all-night breastfeeding routine
• Stopping nighttime visits to your bed
• Handling naptime problems
• Nightmares, separation anxiety, and fears

Elizabeth Pantley is the author of the parenting classic The No-Cry Sleep Solution as well as Gentle Baby Care, Perfect Parenting, Hidden Messages, and Kid Cooperation. She is frequently quoted as a parenting expert and is the mother of four great sleepers.

Library Journal

In this excellent companion to her 2002 parenting classic, The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Pantley debunks many myths about children and sleep, including the prevalent theory that children should be able to sleep independently through the night from the time they are a few months old, supporting her claims with data from the National Sleep Foundation and her own surveys. She also provides a plethora of examples about how perfectly natural it is for toddlers and preschoolers to have sleep issues. However, parents will be thrilled to hear that just because something is normal doesn't mean they have to live with it until things change on their own. She addresses problems and solutions for a wide variety of sleep-related issues, including night waking, nighttime nursing, waking up early, bad dreams, sleeping in the parent's bed, and nap-time problems. This is hope condensed for the tired parent; essential for all public libraries.-Kari Ramstrom, MLIS, Plymouth, MN Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.