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31 Ways To Get Your Baby Sleeping Without Tears In Their Eyes -BEST PARENTING HACKS GUIDE FOR 2020
Develop a realistic attitude about nighttime parenting
Sleeping, like eating, is not a state you can force a baby into. Best you can do is to create a secure, friendly environment that allows sleep to overtake your baby.
A realistic long- term goal is to help your baby develop a healthy attitude about sleep: that sleep is a pleasant state to enter and a secure state to remain in. Many sleep problems in older children and adults stem from children growing up with an unhealthy attitude about sleep — that sleep was not a pleasant state to enter and was a fearful state to remain in. Just as daytime parenting is a long-term investment, so is nighttime parenting. Teach your baby a restful attitude about sleep when they are young and both you and your children will sleep better when they are older.
Beware of sleep trainers
Ever since parenting books found their way into the nursery, sleep trainers have touted magic formulas promising to get babies to sleep through the night — for a price and at a risk. Most of these sleep-training techniques are just variations of the old cry-it-out method. And technology has found its way into nighttime baby care by providing tired parents with a variety of sleep-inducing…
