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Toddler Sleep Training
Getting your toddler to settle down for a night of sleep presents a challenge for many parents. While sleeping may seem like an instinctive skill that your child should develop naturally, in truth, sleep training is often required to produce a toddler who is able to sleep all night. If you are desperate to improve the length and quality of your child’s nightly slumber, a few basic sleep training activities will provide her with the skills needed to sleep with success.
Sleep Apnea Symptoms & Treatments
Sleep apnea affects the quality of sleep that a person gets every night. In people with sleep apnea, the airways become partially or fully blocked, due to a collapse of the airway while sleeping. The person then stops breathing for a few seconds to a few minutes several times a night. Sleep apnea can affect a person’s overall quality of life, but certain measures can be taken to immediately improve sleep quality.
How to Get Your Baby to Sleep Better
As if getting a baby to sleep is not hard enough, new parents have to figure out how to help babies sleep better and stay asleep as well. Not surprisingly, the two are connected. If you want baby to sleep better and longer, you probably have to start looking at the way you get him to sleep in the first place. Although the words “sleep though the night” may not have a place in the new parents’ vocabulary, this article offers tips to help your baby sleep better, so that some day, preferably soon, you will get there.
5 Ways to Plan a Sleepover
Before firming up any plans for a sleepover party with a child or teen, set a limit for the number of children invited to sleep over. Limiting the number of kids will make the party easier to handle and will keep down the costs of the sleepover. Remember that some guests may be able to attend the party but will not be allowed to stay for the sleepover due to curfews, family rules or early morning family obligations. On the invitations for any sleepover party request that guests bring a pillow, a sleeping bag, pajamas and slippers. Include any details about when kids should be picked up the next day.
How Sleep, Sun, Air, and Stress Play a Role in Your Health
The green movement has arguably never been bigger than it is now. Yet, while we strive to better our environment, Mother Natures number one foot soldiers have been losing another battle on another front, their own well being. In the midst of the chaotic …