Sleep Talk

by Lois V. Haddad, Judith Searle, Patricia Wilson

Book Overview

How do you help a toddler give up a pacifier or thumb sucking? How do you prepare your child for a new baby in the family for his first day at school? What do you do when your child consistently wets... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809228009
• ISBN13: 9780809228003
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Sleep Talk works

What this book does is provide words (scripts) of encouragement to read to your child while they sleep to help with problems they might be experiencing. For example, my son wouldn't go to sleep easy AND would wake up more that once during the night. Getting him back to sleep took some time. This went on for two years. We tried everything including the Ferber method. Within three days of using one of the scripts in the book it was easy to get him to sleep. If he did wake during the night he would go back to sleep on his own or be easy to sooth and fall asleep. This was using a script right from the book. Even more amazing was when we would fight with him to give nebulizer treatments. As I fought with him through a treatment I made sure he knew what the nebulizer was and it was good medicine. That night I read a script I wrote using the same words I used during his treatment. The next day he was calm and took the "good medicine." This book provides scripts for many situations and gives you the tools to write your own scripts. It is easy to understand and you can be using the method in short time.

A Wonderful Tool for Childrearing

How I wish I'd had this book when raising my children! It's now at the top of my list for new parents. Not only does the author give specific scripts to use with children as they sleep (with impressive results from clients), she offers wonderful little tidbits on dealing with issues that arise in all families. All of this is presented in a loving, thoughtful, intelligent and logical manner. One of my favorites is the "one-finger" technique. Instead of saying, "No, don't touch that!", she suggests, "You may touch that with one finger." When I'm fortunate enough to have grandchildren, much of what is presented in this gem of a book will be put to good use.

Sleep Talk

I cannot say enough about this book! I, too, am an author and met the author of Sleep Talk through our work. I tried the techniques on my eight-year-old son because I was having trouble getting him ready for school in the mornings. He was always grumpy and would wait until the last minute to put his shoes on and get his backpack ready. I hated fighting in the morning and was desperate to have the harmony we used to enjoy before he started school.Even though I believed in the book, I was shocked by the results. The first night I told my son (after he feel asleep) how proud his father and I were at his ability to wake up with a smile and get ready for school with a great attitude. Sure enough, the next morning he woke up smiling, got dressed right away and had his shoes and backpack on... an hour before we even had to leave! It was unbelievable. And, our mornings are still great, over a year later. I still use the techniques in Sleep Talk regularly and probably always will!

Help Your Child Thrive!

Using the techniques offered in this book can change your child's life! It clearly tells parents how, through the use of nightly Sleep talk, childern can receive messages of a parent's love and acceptance. The book contains numerous scripts and clear instructions on how to use this method to bond with your child and offer him or her age appropriate suggestions to assist in decision making and the development of self-confidence. A master index to the Sleep Talk scripts is found at the end of the book, making this book an easy-to-use resource throughout your child's development. It would be wonderful if every parent, grandparent and caregiver were given a copy of this book and used the techniques so respectully offered by the author. This is a simple and loving way to bond with your child and positively impact his or her development. This book will enrich your life and the life of your child.

A great book for parents and parents-to-be!

This book provides techniques that will help parents bond with their children. I am a new mother and I used this technique with my daughter while I was pregnant and after she was born. I sincerely believe that the techniques contributed to the ease of my labor and delivery (which only lasted 6 hours from the first contraction to delivery). I also receive many compliments that my daughter is a well-adjusted and well-behaved child. The techniques in this book have helped me be a better mother and I will continue to use them with my daughter and with every future child and pregnancy. I highly recommend this book to anyone with children under 16 years of age.