Review: Getting Children To Sleep
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
I have two young children of my own and that is what drew me to this book. ‘Getting Children to Sleep’…great! Just what the doctor ordered. Most of us have been through the not so nice experience of having a sleepy, cranky child on our hands.In Getting Children to Sleep, the author has dealt with the sleep deprived child and so much more. She first demystifies sleep by breaking it down into its various types and then gives us the advantages of good sleep and the consequences of inadequate sleep.’ She then goes on to explain common sleep issues as well as more extreme ones that parents need to look out for.What I really liked were the strategies to put children to sleep on normal days and on all those special occasions as well. I am sure you will have a lot of parents rooting for that. She puts down comprehensively and succinctly how sleep is so important for our children and tops it all off with a chapter on’ Parental Responsibility’ in getting it done.Cathy Wilson has dealt with a very important but oft neglected topic and I support what she puts forward, that the benefits of sleep and the importance of building good sleeping habits in children cannot be trivialized. Even though the body of work does get a bit deep at times; the language used is simple and easy to understand. She uses separate titles within the text to highlight the point she is going to make; which I found very helpful and I daresay would be great for future reference as well. I especially liked her little ‘my thoughts’ section at the end of each chapter. This takes it out of the Health book categories and gives it a warm, personal touch.