Description:
Sleep-deprived moms and dads take note: The two women who help Hollywood's A-listers get their ZZZs share their no-fail, family-friendly solution to get any baby, toddler, or preschooler to sleep--usually within less than five nights. Pioneers in children's behavioral sleep, Jen and Jill give parents the key ingredients for success: a customized sleep plan, step-by-step instructions, and plenty of emotional support as your child learns. In this fully revised edition, they share updated methods for their "least-cry" approach--refined over nearly three decades--to ensure that children learn good sleep skills quickly, with a minimum of tears. You'll learn to: gently shape sleep for newborns birth to twelve weeks old to create a solid foundation; teach your baby or child how to sleep through the night and take great naps; customize the level of support for your child's sleep learning that feels best to you; say goodbye to early morning wakings; end bedtime battles with verbal children; troubleshoot stumbling blocks like illness, teething, sleep regressions, and travel; and access updated sleep planners, visual aids, and highly detailed schedules.
Brief description: A professional working actress from the age of sixteen, Maria McCann is a classically trained, LA-based narrator with a conservatory acting degree from UCLA. She began her career playing Keanu Reeves's girlfriend in an MTV commercial and has since appeared in over forty-five films and TV shows, including Lucifer, Shameless, and Grey's Anatomy. She has recorded over 100 audiobook titles, working with publishers including Brilliance, Simon and Schuster, Podium, Dreamscape, Harper Collins, and Macmillan. Maria is a respected acting coach and teacher, with a skill for sharing complex concepts in challenging nonfiction-bringing an engaging air of expertise to topics ranging from dance (in all its forms), hiking, Alzheimer's care, and self-help. Her experience in youth arts gives her a passion and perspective for captivating YA audiences. Named for the lead character in West Side Story, Maria is proud of her Hispanic heritage and is conversational in Spanish. Her years spent in an elite writer's group (surrounded by Emmy Award-winning storytellers), and with her acclaimed novelist husband give her an affinity for capturing the author's intent and for in-depth character analysis. Maria's musical ear and love of travel have afforded her a knack with accents and dialects. She is particularly drawn to historical fiction where she can throw herself into the research necessary. She is also a fan of narrating paranormal, thrillers, women's fiction, and second-chance love, and as a proud LGBTQ+ parent, she also loves to inhabit the HEA of a scintillating sapphic romance. A lifelong animal advocate, Maria has helped to rescue furry friends from pitbulls to the real-life displaced tigers from the hit documentary Tiger King!