Sleep Disorders Books

Rosie, you left Sarah and me to die while you go enjoy the ocean and beach and sun everyday! Shame on you!

The previous two reviews by "Dr. Joda Jung" and "Dr. Harrison Jung" appear to be fakes. What they write has nothing at all to do with the content and topic of this book or its authors.

No need wasting time reading this bore, or should I say waisting time reading this boar ??? For Rosie to have thrown away her happiness for this ??? Foolish at best, sad at worst! Even Sarah could have done better !!!

They concept sounded good... a list of tips to help with sleep problems. The book is well organized into 4 age ranges from birth to 6 years. Unfortunately, most of these tips are not very helpful, and a lot of them are not even "Ways to Get Your Child to Sleep". There are plenty of "don't do this..." tips, most of which you should already know unless this is the first childcare book you have ever read. Others are just general facts about sleep. Some of the other tips are just reprints of tips that people posted on the author's website. (Shouldn't you expect more from a doctor than hearsay and anecdotal evidence.) The biggest problem with the book is the redundancy. For example, one tip about fever (don't wake the child to take his temperature) is repeated almost exactly a few pages later. Also, "sing to your child" and "read a story to your child" are both good tips, but "read this specific book...", "read this other book...", "read this exact book..." should not all count as separate tips! Clearly this is just padding to fill out the "365 ways" format. If you need real sleep solutions, ignore this shotgun approach, and seek out a title tailored more toward your specific needs.

All sllep specialists and technicians have to review this book.

A quick read, this paper mostly defines sleep disorders with little recommendations to try. Not worth the 4.95. imho.

I was looking for ideas to help ease the transition for my 4-year old moving to her own bed and this book seemed like a good start. I liked that it mentioned positive reinforcement in the beginning, but was not happy with the suggested ideas: charts, drawings and certificates "You are a star!" or "Tremendously stupendous!" for example. In the beginning the book starts by listing several reasons of as to why parents co-sleep, number one being attachment parenting, followed by parents who do it as a matter of convenience, parents who have not really thought about it and lastly, parents who don't want to be alone. Then the author proceeds of giving examples of family situation, one for each day, I would guess in hopes that the readers will identify with one or more of those. He coveres kids who are in charge of their parents, parents who are very busy, but does not offer a single situation of new sibling coming along as a reason for a child to want to stay in the family bed. He does talk about praising the child for being a big boy/girl, but what about the kids who do not want to be big, since a baby is on the horizon and it is getting all the attention. Maybe the sibling rivalry is classified in the 15% of kids who do not go along with the program and are in need of professional help according to him?

The book cover mentiones no more tears, but I didn't find a single solution in his book to avoid tears, the whole program basically can be summed up with "You are going to sleep in your bed in 21 days and if not, I will lock my door..." Overall, I think this book is more of a discipline book than a book that teaches kids to sleep in their own bed. He has couple of good sugestions for dealing with nightmares (a dreamcatcher), but does not discuss at all what to do if your child wakes up at night and snuggles next to you when you are sound asleep and so on. I much prefer the No cry sleep solution.

I ordered this book to learn more about my condition. The book is not very helpful, it is very basic. It does not discuss in any detail the treatments available for this condition. It does not even mention Somnoplasty, a new treatment or give any detail into the available surgery