After School Crankiness



My 5-yr old is in Prep and really enjoying it.  According to her teacher, she is a model student.  She never steps out of line and does well academically.  When she gets home in the afternoon however, things are so …
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Too Scared



“It’s too scary, I don’t want to be by myself!” “Can’t you stay with me?” implores your child for the sixth time. Once again you are going through those bedtime battles. Tired at the end of the day, just needing …
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Night Weaning – How many night feeds are normal?



Night weaning is a question I often am asked by parents. It is easy to say just cut back but very hard to do at 2am with a crying baby who just wants to be fed. Before you start to …
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Patting to Sleep – How do you stop this



My six month old son sleeps quite well but always needs my help actually falling asleep in the first place. I can’t seem to get him to sleep without rocking him to sleep. Trouble is it’s taking longer and longer …
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Early waking… Am i being unrealistic?



At what age is it reasonable to expect a young child to stay in her room until wake up time (in our family 6.45am). My four year old starts crying out for me from about 6am despite me explaining that …
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No, that’s not teething



By News.com.au – Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne If you blame everything from feeding hassles to night-waking on your baby’s teething, then think again. The experts say most of the things that teething is commonly blamed for have nothing to do …
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Toddlers and Night Waking



Many parents contact me when their little one is over 12 months of age, they have been hoping that the problem would go away or that they would sleep better as they got older. Usually it doesn’t go away and …
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Competition Between Siblings



Ever wondered why your children are so different from each other? Of course you have, we all have, many times. One likes sport the other doesn’t, one likes to read and the other is loud, sound familiar. They came from …
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Strange Toddler Behaviour



The Weird (But Totally Normal) Stuff Your Toddler Does.  It may take a while to realise, especially when you’re in the midst of those hazy newborn days, but once the fog passes, you’ll suddenly become aware that your child is …
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Baby Wakes Siblings at Night



My 10 month old is going through a difficult sleep period. He cries so loud at night that he wakes my five year old who has difficulty going back to sleep once awake. I find that I have two sleep …
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