Dad of Divas' Reviews: Book Review - A Good Night's Sleep

Friday, August 12, 2011

Book Review - A Good Night's Sleep

About the Book
According to Anna Wahlgren, acknowledged child-raising authority, best-selling author in Sweden and mother of nine children, there is hope for sleep deprived American families who are trying to cope with kids that fail to sleep through the night. Now available for readers in the USA, “A Good Night’s Sleep” (GNS) contains the most successful approach ever to training babies and children as young as four-months to sleep for as long as 12 hours a night.

Available on Amazon.com and soon to be flying off the shelves of local bookstores across the country, Wahlgren’s book has been called “The book every parent should read,” a “God send” and “The only method that works!”

Wahlgren divulges the secrets that help new parents understand the reasons why children awaken one or sometimes many times in a single night and what their cries really mean. She pulls back the curtain and teaches parents the keys for ending the crying, making children feel secure and getting them to actually begin to enjoy sleeping. The initial turnaround can occur in as little as four days.

Wahlgren points out ways for parents to successfully overcome those obstacles and reassure their children with calm firm, decisive handling and provide a sense of security so they know they are protected. There are several simple tools provided in the book to achieve just that, hand in hand with the steps of calm, security and pleasure, as well as a firm food and sleep schedule.

In “A Good Night’s Sleep,” Wahlgren makes a formidable case for her belief that babies and children who wake up at night suffer from survival anxiety. Simply put, they question their safety and fear for their lives. Her solution is to teach parents to deliver that powerful sense of calm reassurance and security to the child. A security that love, food and comfort alone cannot give.The most important principle in “A Good Night’s Sleep” is to always calm the baby in its own bed. Apart from other well-known sleeping methods, a child cured by GNS should never have to cry herself to sleep or be left alone with questions unanswered.

Anna Wahlgren firmly crushes the wide-spread myth that some children “can’t” or “don’t want to” sleep through the night, and she sees sleep-deprivation as a growing western phenomenon that must be reversed for the sake of children’s well-being. Parents simply have to help them help themselves to sleep, in the same way we have to feed them and dress them. GNS installs that kind of doubtless confidence in every parent who follows Wahlgren’s approach.

As one reviewer put it, “This book contains a very concrete, hands-on do-it-yourself guide adapted for children of different ages, as well as a toolbox describing the moves you use to reassure your child that his safety is guaranteed.” Many readers have said that they decided to have more children thanks to the new life provided by GNS.

Also available at Amazon.com is “For the Love of Children” by Anna Wahlgren. Drawing from her experience as a mother of nine, grandmother of fourteen and an educator and friend to thousands of parents over the last 30 years, Anna Wahlgren's “For the Love of Children” ranges from the practicalities of the physical care of an infant right through to preparing the grown child for leaving home. Written with candor, affection and humor, “For the Love of Children” offers comprehensive, meaningful and practical information and guidance on the myriad of issues facing today s and tomorrow s parents.

About the Author

Over the last thirty years, Anna Wahlgren, a Swedish full-time mother of nine, and the author of For the Love of Children, has developed the Good-Night's-Sleep Cure, which has enabled many thousands of parents to help their children - and thereby help themselves.

My Take on the Book
Our first daughter had a rough time falling asleep at night and it took us a LONG time to figure out what we needed to do, but after reading countless books and talking to people we finally figured it out and got her on a sleeping schedule. This short book takes all of the strife that we went through into perspective and places amazing resources at any parent's fingertips.

What was great about the book was that the concepts are easy to understand and implement. The book is full of great examples of real people who are like you and I and have dealt with the issues that some parents deal with when going though these challenges!

This book is a must have for any parent, as I definitely don't want you to go through what we went through with our first child!

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