How to make (hard) parenting decisions
Why is it so hard to make a decision? When it comes to all things parenting, parents can feel pressured one way or another from advice they get from well-meaning friends, family and especially from what they read online. In our current age of information and social...
How to establish bedtime boundaries for toddlers.
It’s important to have strong bedtime boundaries. This will help establish healthy sleep habits and ensure your toddler gets enough sleep. Here are ten practical strategies to help you establish and enforce bedtime boundaries with ease. Note: this article refers to...
Ten Steps to Make Bedtime Easy
The key to easy bedtimes is to have strong and consistent boundaries. This will help your toddler settle to sleep easily and sleep all night long. Your kid WANTS you to set limits and have boundaries. Your kid wants you to be in control. In addition to your...
Five things that might be sabotaging your child’s sleep.
There are 5 main things that can stop your kid from sleeping well. Assuming your child has no medical or health issues and he (or she) is healthy and thriving, there are really only five real reasons why he may not be sleeping well. Each of these things can be...
‘Pop-outs’ are a gentle strategy to help your child go to sleep independently, at bedtime.
What are pop-outs? Pop-outs are a gentle way to teach a child that he is capable of going to sleep on his own, at bedtime. It can particularly help when a child is going through a period of separation anxiety or when transitioning from sleeping with a parent to his...
How to Set up Quiet Time for Toddlers
Quiet time is a chance for your child to rest and reset but how do you encourage your child to actually stay quiet and rest? If you’re like most parents, you cherish nap time and you dread the day your child no longer needs a nap. When your child is asleep in...
Why your child is the boss of bedtime and the missing link
Who's (really) in control at bedtime? If you feel like you’ve ‘lost control’ at bedtime, or around sleep in general, you’re not alone! Just like so many other parents, you might be on the struggle bus right now. You might be thinking, ‘what the heck … it never...
Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety can negatively impact sleep. You may be in the midst of a sleep regression right now, where your once ‘good sleeper’ has suddenly become clingy and it’s negatively affecting naps or night sleep. It’s normal for a child to experience separation...
How to Deal with Toddler Bedtime Battles
Help, my toddler fights bedtime! Many parents struggle when it comes to their child's bedtime. Lots of parents dread this time of day or they feel anxiety leading up to bedtime. One of the most common reasons your child will fight bedtime is that your child is...
3 things that can keep your kid awake at night (& what to do about it)
We all want our kids to sleep well and when they don’t, it can put a real strain on family life. Disrupted night sleep is the root cause of a myriad of problems for children but also for their parents. When kids don’t sleep well and nights are disrupted, it can make...
7 steps to help your newborn nap in their bassinet.
There usually comes a time when parents feel ready to have their baby sleep in the bassinet for naps as opposed to only 'on them'. In the beginning, newborn snuggles on us are so precious. There’s nothing more loving and cosy than the warmth of your newborn baby’s...
How to help your strong willed toddler to sleep well
'Strong willed toddlers' can test parents to the utmost of limits, especially when it comes to sleep. Strong willed toddlers have a knack of pushing our parental buttons, even more so than the average two or three year old. They take everything to 'the next level'....
7 helpful tips for your almost six week old baby
Newborns four to six weeks old are starting to show some patterns of regularity. Sleep In the first couple of weeks of life, your baby seemed to be asleep all the time. You could actually get a nap in yourself. Between the ages of four to six weeks, it’s normal...
MEET TORI
Tori is an internationally recognised and certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant based in Toowoomba, QLD. She is also a registered teacher with a Masters degree in Education, a Happiest Baby on The Block Educator and a mother of three.