A few months ago I finished my book, a 3.5 year effort of sweat, tears, and loneliness (writing is lonely business). But it was worth all the sweating and crying because now I am an author. When you are an author you get membership to secret underground writer clubs and everybody wants to be your friend because you are an author and are invited to all the best parties.
Ok I’m making that up. But it’s still pretty cool.
Being interviewed on Vermont Public Radio was on my “now I’m a new author” bucket list along with:
None of those things have happened (yet) but award-winning journalist and podcaster Jane Lindholm graciously invited me to join her on Vermont Edition. In the interview we talk a little bit about me (seriously who the heck am I and how did we get here?) before delving into reader/listener questions about consistency, nap battles, independent sleep, big kids waking up at night, boundaries, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Jane graciously allowed me to share that interview here with you fine folks.
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very cool!! Good luck on the rest of your bucket list LOL !
Hey Alexis!
Just wanted to pop in and leave a big THANK YOU! I stumbled upon a message board bullying sleep training parents for the first time in a long while today, which made me think of how this page and your Facebook group helped us when we sleep trained our kid back in 2016. We decided to sleep train after much doubt and consideration, and have not looked back. After sleep training for three nights at about 7 months, our 2,5 year old still loves her bed time routine and going to bed in general, and sings herself to sleep every night after we put her down. It’s a miracle and we couldn’t have done it without you!
It saddens me that there is so little room for thoughful sleep training on message boards and other places desperate parents go to seek advice and comfort. It honestly saved our sanity and changed our lives completely for the better. In hindsight I think it’s one of the best parenting decisions I’ve made, as our kid instantly got better rested and clearly a lot happier. You really were a voice of reason and comfort when we were making the choice to sleep train and other sources told us we were abusing and neglecting our child.
Even some of our friends were appalled by our choice to sleep train. Well, we spent a few weeks with friends with kids of similar ages this summer. At 7 pm on the dot every night our kid was lying happily in her travel cot and my husband and I sat outside on the patio with our feet up while the other parents spent an hour or two trying to put their own kiddos to sleep. Just sayin’.
You’re the best!
Aw cheers and thanks 🙂
The mythology of the evil sleep training parent needs to die already. We’ve made teaching kids how to sleep this HUGE AND TERRIBLE THING which ignores the basic fact that sleep is essential for human health and happiness. Teaching kids how to sleep and establishing healthy boundaries just makes sense because parenting is exhausting ENOUGH without all the night time nonsense. So glad you found a path forward and were able to enjoy your summer vacation!