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Bedtime Guidelines


Recognize sleep problems in your child: According to the NSF, you should look for things like difficulty falling asleep, nighttime awakenings, snoring, stalling and resisting going to bed, having trouble breathing, and loud or heavy breathing while sleeping. These sleep problems can be evident in daytime behavior such as being overtired, sleepy or cranky.



SOURCES:Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, Richard Ferber, 1985. Sleeping Through the Night; How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep, Jodi Mindell, PhD, 1997. Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night; A Guide for Parents of Children from Infancy to Age Five, Cuthbertson & Schevill, 1985. National Sleep Foundation's 2004 "Sleep in America Poll."