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Sound Sleepers -
This program teaches parents how to prepare for good sleep
before their baby arrives, and then to help their infants and toddlers learn to sleep well from
birth and up to four years of age. Self-calming
strategies are of paramount importance as children practice
the art of good sleep. Good crying and bad crying are
also discussed.
Setting
Healthy Limits is one of the most loving
–yet difficult – jobs a parent ever has to do. Whether
through establishing good sleep routines, carefully ignoring
temper tantrums or deciding how to keep a toddler from
running away, parents of young children are tested every
day. How parents respond during years 1-5 will
determine how their child goes out to meet the world. No one
should aim to be the perfect parent but we all need
good tools and well-researched ideas when we choose how to
respond to a child who is begging to know where the limits
are.
Toilet
Learning the Easy Way sounds good to
every parent, especially when they feel the pressure from a
preschool or daycare centre where toilet training is
required by age three. How should parents respond? We
believe children learn to use the toilet in the same way
they learn everything else at this age – by imitating their
beloved adults. Some take to it early, others take their
time. They all learn it eventually. We show parents how to
be good models and then we offer a nearly fool-proof plan to
use after the third birthday. We also help parents with the
very careful handling required for a child who is showing
strong toilet-resistance.
“Raymond
Parenting encourages parents to parent more slowly and keep
childhood simple. Leave time for daydreaming and
'do-nothing' days and value the new ideas that sprout from
those quiet moments.”
-Kitty Raymond, Founder
of Raymond Parenting
“We can go much further
to allow and encourage parents to be there when children
need them, most critically in the earliest weeks and months
of life. Children do not arrive with instructions, but they
do confer the immense and immediate responsibility of
figuring out how best to care for them.
Parenting does not all
‘come naturally,’ but ready or not, it comes. The village
as a whole owes expectant and new mothers and fathers its
accumulated experience and wisdom, and the resources they
will need to tackle the important and exciting task ahead.”
-Hillary Clinton from It
Takes a Village
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"I’ve benefited from Kitty's common-sense, logical advice
for four years. It's a great relief to have someone of her calibre to discuss
the issues of raising children."
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Sound Sleepers Program
Further Education
ParentsNet
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