Sound Sleep and Secure Attachment With Aware Parenting

You really can have both restful sleep and a securely attached child! Do you want your baby or child to: Wake up less frequently? Sleep more restfully? Feel deeply relaxed? Be securely attached? Would you love harmony with your older child or teen and their sleep? In this attachment- and trauma-informed book, Marion Rose, PhD, explains the innate biological wisdom that babies, children, and teens have for restful sleep - and how cultural conditioning teaches parents to fight against it. Drawing on research into traditional cultures, our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and the physiology of stress and relaxation, this book shows how children from infancy to the teen years need to be both tired and relaxed to sleep restfully. Discover the two key ingredients for true relaxation: 1 ~ Safety: Babies, children, and teens need to feel safe in order to feel relaxed enough to sleep restfully. The younger they are, the more they need closeness with us to feel safe. 2 ~ Cooperation with their innate relaxation processes: When they are sleepy, babies, children, and teens try to use their relaxation-through-release responses. They need our support for those processes to work. Without these two ingredients, they won't feel relaxed. Instead, they will need to dissociate to fall asleep, leading to less restful sleep and more frequent waking. Based on the Aware Parenting approach developed by Aletha Solter, PhD, this compassionate book explains how babies, children, and teens naturally know how to heal from stress and trauma when they're tired, leading to profound relaxation and restful sleep.Discover how to help your co-sleeping breastfeeding baby sleep for longer stretches - by listening to their feelings while holding them in your loving arms. Help your child sleep restfully by joining in with their rambunctious play and listening lovingly to their tears and tantrums. Understand how to support your older child or teen, so they remain connected with their innate body wisdom for restful sleep. Marion Rose, PhD is a Level 2 Aware Parenting instructor and the Regional Coordinator for Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia. She is the author of four bestselling Aware Parenting books. She hosts The Aware Parenting Podcast, and offers courses and mentoring to parents and people wanting to become Aware Parenting instructors. "I highly recommend this book for all parents, especially those who yearn for a good night's sleep!" - Aletha Solter, PhD, Founder of Aware Parenting "In a world filled with conflicting sleep advice, Marion Rose's book stands out like a beacon of light. It offers an unparalleled level of compassion for parents while also providing clear, practical guidance on how to achieve better sleep for the whole family." - Maru Rojas, Aware Parenting instructor