How to Get a Toddler To Sleep Through the Night (even in their own bed!)

How to Get Your Toddler to Sleep Through the Night

When you first bring home your baby, you expect some sleepless nights, and sometimes even enjoy the snuggles! But, after months of sleep deprivation, you expect your baby to grow into a toddler sleeping through the night. When that doesn’t happen, you can be left feeling even more exhausted, frustrated, and confused. Look no further! …

Read more

The Ultimate Toddler Nap Guide

The Ultimate Toddler Nap Guide

Toddlers nap until 3 to 4 years old, on average. Learn all you need to know about your toddler’s nap based on my 15+ years as a sleep consultant. Why do toddlers need to nap? Toddlers need to nap to support their growth and development. Their bodies and brains are growing at very rapid rates, …

Read more

How Much Sleep Does a 3 Year Old Need?

How Much Sleep Does a 3 Year Old Need?

Almost everyone knows newborns need to sleep virtually all day and all night. And, babies need a lot of sleep day and night, too. But, what about toddlers and preschoolers? How much sleep does a 3-year-old need? Your 3 year old needs an average of 11 hours 15 minutes of sleep in a 24-hour period. …

Read more

Safe Toddler Sleep: When Can Your Toddler Use a Pillow?

Safe Toddler Sleep: When Can Your Toddler Use a Pillow?

This is a guest post written by Judith McLean When your toddler is ready to make the transition from crib to their first bed, it’s a milestone often accompanied by lots of exciting decisions, from selecting new bedroom decor to choosing the right bedding. It’s usually only once you’ve decided on the bed and bought …

Read more

5 Tips for Using Toddler Clocks to End Early Waking

5 Tips for Using Toddler Clocks to End Early Waking

Toddler clocks can be very effective in helping to teach children to stay in their beds/room until the clock hits a certain time, or turns a certain color.

Toddler Waking Up Too Early? Tips To Help!

Toddler Waking Up Too Early?

Toddler sleep is tough enough. Add in early rising on top of nighttime waking and short naps? That is a problem indeed! Early waking can be a particularly tough problem to tackle with toddlers, since they’re so much more mobile and (and often more strong-willed) than babies. While an early-rising baby will cry, an early-rising …

Read more

Your Toddler’s Weird Self-Soothing Behaviors Explained

Let’s be honest for a moment. Our toddlers are cute — no doubt about that! But sometimes, their behavior is…well…weird. Picking their noses in public? Drinking the bathwater? Insisting on being naked at all times? Throwing tantrums over the color of their socks? Yeah…toddlers can be strange little people sometimes! And speaking of strange — …

Read more

3 Signs Your Toddler Is Ready To Stop Napping and How To Transition to Rest Time

3 Signs Your Toddler Is Ready To Stop Napping and How To Transition to Rest Time

When do kids stop napping? Ever heard the expression ‘all good things must come to an end’? It proves true in many cases, doesn’t it? Good books, beach vacations, chocolate cake… sooner or later, good things end. We can add something else to this list – naps. It’s true! The naps that were (or perhaps …

Read more

Your Toddler’s Sleep Regressions Explained

Toddler Sleep Regressions

What are toddler sleep regressions, and when do they happen? Learn all you need to know about the two major sleep regressions for toddlers.

FREE Guide: Five Ways To Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night

Join over 500,000 parents for 15+ years & sign up today to receive the guide and Newzzz, our Baby Sleep Newsletter absolutely FREE!