Your child's ability to settle herself when going to sleep, and subsequently if she wakes up in the night, is essential to a good night's rest for your child, and indeed you. Yet some children find this a difficult skill to master, often because

’s meal at the same time as your starters,” asked the waitress, already on first-name terms. As we settled into a game of Snap (with me curbing my competitive streak to keep the peace), the adults enjoyed starters of Richard Woodall smoked ham with soft

says. "I kept thinking ‘What if the author hates it?’" Thankfully, she didn’t. The self-doubt is typical of Ryan’s self-deprecating nature. Even now, after nearly a decade of considerable success, he says he is "shocked and stunned" when he unexpectedly

of sleep-disturbance problem. P is for the Psychology of co-sleeping Psychological studies show that children who have co-slept with their parents in the first years of their life enjoy significantly higher self-esteem, experience less fear and anxiety