The Bedtime Challenge

This week on The Attached Family online, fellow API Speaks blogger and API leader for South Austin, Texas, USA, Sonya Fehér, reveals to API members her efforts in diffusing strong emotions surrounding one of the most challenges parts of parenting – AP or not: bedtime!

Sonya takes readers in her journey from toddler bedtime battles to nighttime parenting, with the help of a book by Lawrence Cohen, the recognition of her own need for balance, and compassion for her son’s need for a bedtime routine that fosters close connection.

Read the article, “The Bedtime Challenge.” Access to The Attached Family online – the online extension of API’s quarterly print magazine – is a benefit of membership to API. Find login information on the Table of Contents page of the Summer 2009 “Feeding Our Children” issue of the magazine, or if you’ve joined recently, contact memberships [AT] attachmentparenting [DOT] org for more information. Not yet a member? Take advantage of our current membership special.

Author: Rita Brhel

Rita Brhel, BS, CLC, API Leader, lives with her family near Hastings, NE, USA, where she works as a WIC Breastfeeding Counselor. She also writes for Mothering and La Leche League's New Beginnings. View all posts by Rita Brhel