Today I wanted to share two new parenting titles from Scribe with you. They aim to help parents solve two of the most commented on, despaired over and debated about parenting dilemmas: sleep and discipline using Mindful discipline
The Happy Sleeper by sleep experts Julie Wright and Heather Turgeon offers an alternative sleep training method to ‘cry it out’ or ‘attachment parenting’. Using an approach rooted in making children feel safe, secure and happy in their bedtime routines, The Happy Sleeper offers practical advice for parents wanting to create good sleeping habits, or undo poor ones. The fantastic thing about this title is that it is designed to benefit the whole family, with chapters on baby sleep, toddler sleep, child sleep and even parent sleep! It also offers troubleshooting for every imaginable sleep-related problem: from colic and sleep regression, to moving into a big bed.
Mindfulness — the practice of using focused attention and being present and open — serves as the foundation for the techniques in this book. Using these methods in a thoughtful and loving way, parents can guide their children in learning how to soothe themselves to sleep.
No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson helps reduce family dramas: from toddler tantrums to teenage door-slams. It explains practical strategies for healthy, coercion-free discipline based on recent discoveries about the brain that give deep insights into children’s needs. Using an approach rooted in Mindfulness, this book provides a practical hands-on guide to discipline that will help build your child’s emotion and social skills, serving them throughout their entire life.
My children aren’t babies any more but I like to pick up books to learn new ideas. Parenting is a personal thing and there are no right or wrong ways to tackle sleep, behaviour or eating. These books are great to dip into, especially The Happy Sleeper which is organised by age. Mindfulness is really popular at the moment so it’s worth getting hold of these books if you are looking for a little help to live that way.
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4 Comments
meimei
January 18, 2015 at 9:18 pmI am not a parent but I am extremely close to both my nieces, having baby sat them from newborn. My sister never really thought about buying such books, but they sound like a very good idea and pact with great tips and information!
Meimei xx
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Isabella (Tiny Tang)
January 18, 2015 at 9:57 pmooh these books look really interesting. I don’t have children but I have really young cousins so this would be really useful actually, thank you for sharing 🙂 x
chantelle hazelden (mamamummymum)
January 19, 2015 at 1:03 pmthese sound interesting but as you say parenting is a personal thing but these books sound like fab guides. thanks for linking up with #readwithme x
Jamie
March 16, 2015 at 3:37 pmWe started on the Happy Sleeper methodology on the day it came out and it has been fantastic for us all. We had been having some good success with Elizabeth Pantley’s “No Cry…Solutions” but after 6 weeks he just had enough of all the fussing. We tried Happy Sleeper and he slept 9 hours on the first night.
It wasn’t easy and there are still difficult nights here and there but it has worked wonders. It gives the tired parent mind a framework to use and the science seems reliable.
That said it under explains some key points and over explains some simple concepts.