SLEEP
IS JOB ONE!
I teach parents and caretakers that babies and children are very much like you and I. Breaking old habits and creating new
ones is often if not always frustrating.
It is very difficult for a parent to understand
that teaching a child a new habit such
as learning to go to sleep on its own or
trading a cookie for a healthier snack
is not emotional for them.
Teaching a child
new habits often causes crying or tantrums
and that is okay. It
is how they release the frustration because
it is not an emotional issue…it is
a BRAIN ISSUE.
I chose the name The 3 Day Sleep Solution
because three days is what it takes for
the brain to establish new connectors.
When a response is met with a consistent
behavior (the baby is tired or wakes prematurely
and is given a pacifier or food) the brain
creates a connector to establish that response.
When a time comes that this cannot happen
because the baby or child is not sleep
well due these sleep crutches a change
in habits must occur. The first day is
most challenging when changing a habit
because the hypothalamus is letting the
brain know this is not “normal”.
This is where the frustration comes in.
THE BRAIN MUST BREAK AWAY FROM THE OLD
CONNECTIONS AND FIND NEW NEUROPATHWAYS
TO CONNECT TO IN ORDER SATISFY THIS NEW
BEHAVOIR BEING INTRODUCED. The beauty of
a child’s brain is they are not hardwired
and we are in fact in control of their
reality. So in 3 days old habits can be
broken and new ones are created through
putting healthy sleep habits into place
and establishing the most important tool
for the brain – consistency.
1. Did you know that parents lose an average
of 200 hours of sleep the first year of
their child’s life? If you break
that down that is not sleeping the entire
month of February. This is not necessary.
2. Did you know that by age 4 months OVER
half of babies are sleep deprived?
3. Did you know that lack of sleep is directly
correlated to ADD, ADHD and obesity in
children?
4. Did you that sleep habits created in
infancy follow a person throughout their
lives?
5. Did you know that SLEEP IS THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING FOR YOUR CHILD’S
DEVELOPING BRAIN?
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