From Contented Baby to Confident Child

Problem-Solving in the first three years

Thousands of grateful parents, who found that her advice on sleeping and feeding worked for their newborn baby, will be relieved to discover that Gina Ford has a follow-up to her bestseller, The Contented Little Baby Book . FROM CONTENTED BABY TO CONFIDENT CHILD covers all the potential pitfalls that parents can encounter during the first three years and includes a foolproof seven-day potty training programme.

What sets Gina apart from other childcare experts is that her advice is derived from over twenty years of actual hands-on experience. Parents can be absolutely confident that her techniques, which have been tried and tested many times and have proved successful with many different children, can also work for them.

What You'll Find Inside

From Contented Baby to Contented Child covers seven key areas of concern for parents:

• Feeding problems in the first year
  • Baby feeding two or three times a night
  • The fussy feeder
  • Problems with mixed feeding - establishing a schedule
• Sleeping problems in the first year
  • Difficulties in settling the baby to sleep
  • Night wakings in older babies
  • Teething and illness - the effect on sleep
• Crying in the first year
  • The reasons young babies cry
  • How to distinguish the different cries
  • Coping with a demanding, clingy, irritable or sensitive baby
• Toddlerhood
  • Dealing with tantrums
  • Sibling rivalry and jealousy
  • Night terrors, nightmares and fear of the dark
• Potty training
  • Signs of readiness
  • Preparing for training
  • Special problems
• Freedom from Frustration - Toddlerhood to childhood - what to expect
  • Building self-esteem
  • Teaching good manners and responsibility
• Habits - The dummy or comforter
  • Cleaning teeth and washing hands
  • Thumb-sucking or nail biting

In addition to practical tips and advice, Gina uses case histories of babies and young children she has worked with to illustrate how her methods solved problems in specific situations, and helped to get parent and child back on the right track. At the end of certain chapters such as potty training, she also includes a useful section of commonly asked questions and their answers.

Reassuring and down-to-earth, parents will find Gina Ford's advice can help make the passage from contented baby to confident child, a happy and stress-free experience for the whole family.

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From Contented Baby to Confident Child
Problem-solving in the First Three Years
Gina Ford
Vermilion

The Gina Ford books can be purchased from all good book shops and on-line with Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.