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Sleep Play Love: How to Love and Play Your Way to Better Sleep – For Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Parents
"One of the best new Parenting books" - BookAuthority
Finally, an alternative to the old-school one-size-fits-all methods of "sleep training!" This easy-to-read book will transform your parenting experience and restore the rest and harmony that your family deserves. With the parent-child connection and attachment theory at the heart of her approach, Sophie offers gentle and flexible solutions to the modern-day sleep and parenting challenges. Sleep Play Love offers a loving, respectful, and effective framework, creating happy babies and families long-term ~ without the "cry it out."
This book will provide you
"Sophie writes the way she coaches in real life. If you're looking for a friend and mentor to guide you through parenting, this is the book for you."
- Meg Tuohey, Relationship Expert
"This book was a game changer in the way I engage with my children. Although my daughter and son have always been good sleepers, the deeper understanding that this book provides fosters a more meaningful, more connected relationship with my little ones. Thank you."
-Samantha, Parent
"Sophie has done something I desperately needed; she's made easily understandable some incredibly effective practices and philosophies in a down-to-earth, practical way. Her recommendations are drawn from scientific research (which for me is a requirement for any good parenting resource) and a deep background in on-the-ground experience effectively supporting parents. Sleep Play Love resonated with my own research, as well as intuition, and I'm bolstered knowing I've got the concepts and practices in this book in my parenting toolkit."
-Liberty, Early Childhood Educator
"This book is a game changer for babies and parents."
- Gina, Parent
"Sophie's book has been an absolute lifesaver. As a busy mother of four, her practical no-fuss solutions to sleep have been our secret weapon during growth spurts and developmental milestones."
- Cindy, Holistic Health Practitioner
"Sophie's book provides such clear, reliable and easy to understand information. It has provided much comfort and has been an invaluable resource in my first year as a parent."
-Georgia Miles, Chiropractor
"The Sleep Play Love Book presents a countless number of invaluable parenting tools that I use to connect with my children on a daily basis; deepening our bond. Sophie's loving approach to parenting resonates with my heart more than any other, and I appreciate the knowledge I have gained so much I almost considered having another child just so I could put it into practice at the newborn and infant stages!"
-Erika, Parent
Finally, an alternative to the old-school one-size-fits-all methods of "sleep training!" This easy-to-read book will transform your parenting experience and restore the rest and harmony that your family deserves. With the parent-child connection and attachment theory at the heart of her approach, Sophie offers gentle and flexible solutions to the modern-day sleep and parenting challenges. Sleep Play Love offers a loving, respectful, and effective framework, creating happy babies and families long-term ~ without the "cry it out."
This book will provide you
"Sophie writes the way she coaches in real life. If you're looking for a friend and mentor to guide you through parenting, this is the book for you."
- Meg Tuohey, Relationship Expert
"This book was a game changer in the way I engage with my children. Although my daughter and son have always been good sleepers, the deeper understanding that this book provides fosters a more meaningful, more connected relationship with my little ones. Thank you."
-Samantha, Parent
"Sophie has done something I desperately needed; she's made easily understandable some incredibly effective practices and philosophies in a down-to-earth, practical way. Her recommendations are drawn from scientific research (which for me is a requirement for any good parenting resource) and a deep background in on-the-ground experience effectively supporting parents. Sleep Play Love resonated with my own research, as well as intuition, and I'm bolstered knowing I've got the concepts and practices in this book in my parenting toolkit."
-Liberty, Early Childhood Educator
"This book is a game changer for babies and parents."
- Gina, Parent
"Sophie's book has been an absolute lifesaver. As a busy mother of four, her practical no-fuss solutions to sleep have been our secret weapon during growth spurts and developmental milestones."
- Cindy, Holistic Health Practitioner
"Sophie's book provides such clear, reliable and easy to understand information. It has provided much comfort and has been an invaluable resource in my first year as a parent."
-Georgia Miles, Chiropractor
"The Sleep Play Love Book presents a countless number of invaluable parenting tools that I use to connect with my children on a daily basis; deepening our bond. Sophie's loving approach to parenting resonates with my heart more than any other, and I appreciate the knowledge I have gained so much I almost considered having another child just so I could put it into practice at the newborn and infant stages!"
-Erika, Parent
- GenresParenting
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 5, 2019
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September 30, 2019
I am a big fan of parenting books, blogs and podcast, and this book is up there as one of the most influential and meaningful that I’ve read so far. Whilst I’ve learnt so much from the likes of Dan Siegel and Janet Lansbury (and I adore their stuff), Sophie’s book was exactly what I needed as a mum with 2 kids under 2 who were not sleeping. I wanted desperately to stay connected with my kids, but had fallen into a black and white belief around sleep and care for babies and toddlers. For so long I felt so happy and thriving when I fed to sleep, coslept, and had them sleep in the sling. But as my 10 month old started having his daily sleep in the car and both boys waking consistently at night (and me starting to feel a disconnect from that), when I found Sophie’s book, it really did seem like the last piece of the puzzle. There can be so much connection, love and peace around bedtime that doesn’t include rocking them and feeding them (although there is a lot of connection with that as well, I had just reached a point where things were changing). I felt that any ‘training’ was wrong. However I would describe this book as training for parents more than anything. I learnt quite a bit about respect for my children, where I thought I was respecting them to my fullest already, I found that I had more space to listen to them and be with them in their feelings. For fans of Janet Lansbury, this book quite aligns with her short article about baby sleep and listening to our children’s needs. So I got a lot out of this book. But just as it is with any parenting advice, take what speaks to you and sits with you best. I have just found that I don’t have to be so black and white. And I still have plenty of opportunities to have both my boys in bed with me at times, but I have a clear expectation of them at bedtime (and they have expectations of me to play and listen to them at night- and I hope they will always know I will do those things for them). So I’m getting the best of both worlds and I feel that they are too.
October 3, 2019
I have 3 children under 5. Reading sleep play love actually put my mind at ease about the sleep patterns and regressions babies and children go through, and that in most cases it’s completely normal! I love that she breaks it down by ages because I forget with each child how much they sleep in the beginning haha. I have a 2 month old and thanks to Sleep play love he sleeps through the night! The book also gave me so much insight on transitioning my toddler into her own bed and making her room comfortable for her. My 5 year old also started kindergarten which has thrown everyone off but I changed naps slightly with the books help, and changed bed times. They all sleep 12 hrs every night! If you want to find a loving and kind approach to getting more sleep for everyone you must read!
September 21, 2019
One of the best parenting/sleep books out there!!! I have read a few and I hands down this one was the best. I had a toddler who wouldn’t sleep EVER and after reading this book and implementing some changes I learned from reading this book my daughter has been sleeping regularly through the night! Highly recommend
September 30, 2019
Sophie takes you step by step through the sleep play love method first by empowering you with the latest up to date info incorporating a gentle, wholistic, tried-and-tested approach to helping your baby sleep soundly. A bedside baby bible! Highly recommend
October 1, 2019
this book is absolutely amazing. The guidance is great, gentle and makes sense. Understanding a baby and child as a whole took me on a much kinder parenting path, For me and my girls. I would recommend this to every parent new or old! I only wish I’d read it before the birth of my first Bub.
September 30, 2019
Great book, quick-reference chapters and points which I often refer back too.
October 1, 2019
Excellent! The book I wish I had when my first child was born! A must have!
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