When Children Become Ornaments: Raising Fragile Kids
Many parents are trying harder than ever to do the right thing and still they feel stuck. This article explores how overprotection, despite good intentions, can quietly undermine children’s resilience and leave parents feeling constantly ‘on’.
7 helpful tips for your almost six week old baby
Newborns four to six weeks old are starting to show some patterns of regularity. Sleep In the first couple of weeks of life, your baby seemed to be asleep all the time. You could actually get a nap in yourself. Between the ages of four to six weeks, it’s normal...
Sleep is a Choice
Sleep should be a priority. We need to do what we can to get better sleep for our children and ourselves. We need to smarten up and understand the damage that chronic sleep issues can have on our families. It's a no brainer. Myth: sleep training harmful. There...
Fixing Early Morning Wake Ups
Waking early can quickly become habitual Aim to avoid the trap. Once an early morning waking habit has formed, it will usually only change if parents make a conscious effort to resolve the issue. This might mean making adjustments to the sleep environment or nap...
Cot to Big Bed, No Fuss
Cot to Bed Transition It’s exciting and rewarding when your child reaches any kind of milestone, whether it’s a physical milestone like learning to walk, or a speech language milestone like baby’s first word. Another important milestone is a little less understood but...
7 Baby Sleep Secrets You Won’t Find on Google
Most parents dream of a full night’s sleep, even before their baby is born. Expectant parents are warned by well meaning others to expect sleep to be non-existent and sleep deprivation to be the norm. They are given a wealth of information and support about birth,...
Six Top Tips to Banish Bedtime Battles
"Help! My child fights bedtime." One of the most common reasons a child will fight bedtime is that the child is overtired. This often coincides with a nap transition, when your child is ready to drop a nap. Their body simply needs some time to adjust to...
7 simple steps to fix your newborn’s day/night confusion
Is your newborn sleeping for long stretches in the day and 'partying' at night? If you are nodding your head right now, you can rest assured this is a normal newborn phenomenon that will sort itself out in time, with a little help from you! What is day/night...
Catnapping Solutions
If your baby is catnapping they are most likely having consistently short naps, usually between about thirty and forty five minutes long. This is developmentally normal and becomes apparent for babies some time between eight weeks and six months of age. It happens as...
Sleep Association Audit
You might be familiar with the term 'sleep associations' but did you know that a child's sleep associations can determine whether or not they will sleep through the night? There are many factors that come in to play when it comes to a child being able to sleep through...
Nutrition for Toddlers
Nutrition for Toddlers A healthy diet is essential for your child’s mental and physical development and can have positive effects on your child’s sleep. Breast milk or formula has all the nutrients that babies need up until they are around six months old. At six...
Six month old, waking frequently at night
CASE STUDY Meet Bec and baby Grayson. Bec reached out to me for help with her six-month-old little boy, Grayson. Grayson was a very active and busy little boy who had recently started crawling and even pulling himself up in his cot. Bec also had two older boys to look...
The Power of Books and the Bedtime Routine
WE LOVE BOOKS Especially books that help children with sleep As a teacher, I'm slightly biased when I say that books are powerful learning tools for all children, no matter how old the child is. Sure, your baby may not understand all the words you are...
MEET TORI
Tori is an internationally recognised and Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and Parent Educator, based in Toowoomba, QLD. She is a registered teacher with a Masters Degree in Education. Tori is a mother of three herself and she also has three grandchildren.