Sleep Training Advice Based on Your Child’s Temperament

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode of the Gentle Parenting Podcast, Kim West sits down with a longtime friend and certified Gentle Sleep Coach, Macall Gordon. This is Macall’s second time on the podcast, to listen to her first episode all about sleep training research, head</span> <a href= "https://sleeplady.com/podcast/how-to-interpret-research-for-sleep-training-methods-and-find-what-works-for-you/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">HERE</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Kim and Macall sat down to discuss sleep training based on a child’s temperament. They speak specifically about the alert, high-wired and high-energy children, and how common sleep training advice can be adapted based on this type of child. They discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Does Temperament Mean?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sleep Training Based on Temperament </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Characteristics of Hard Sleepers </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Connection Between and Parents and Baby’s Temperament </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Good Side of Your Child’s Temperament </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Research on Sleep Training and Temperament </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our favorite quotes from the episode are</span> <strong>“to really self soothe requires motor skills, attention skills, and your child has to divert their attention, and all those things take time. When the things that are bothering your child take more attention, they need more help to settle down.”</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <strong>“Pick your battles, but fight the ones