Your Toddler and Sleep

Try these tips to get your children to go to sleep in their own bed.

Use this printable guide to help determine if your child is getting enough sleep as recommended by the National Sleep Foundation.

Try these tricks from our readers to help your toddler catch some ZZZZZ's.

Although wetting the bed is often out of your little one's control, there are steps to take to help reduce accidents.

Skip the stress with bedtime and help your child get into a bedtime routine. Print and check off each activity as your child prepares for a good night's sleep. As your child grows, use this bedtime routine checklist for older kids and this morning routine checklist for busy school days.

Learn how you can help your child overcome habitual bedwetting.

Learn why your toddler may wake in the middle of the night, and what you can do to soothe her back to sleep.

Read tips on how to soothe your toddler back to sleep after bad dreams, and learn what you can do to prevent nightmares.

Read different ideas on how to sooth your toddler to sleep.

Learn about your child's sleep patterns, and the benefits of sleep for your toddler.

This activity will help you make bedtime regular and predictable, by establishing a routine transition for your little one.

You never know what might give your child nightmares, but the solution is constant encouragement.

Night terrors happen when a child (usually a toddler) arouses from a deep sleep without totally waking up. The best thing to do is try to keep your daughter asleep.

Night terrors may seem like nightmares, but the child is actually in a stage of sleep where she does not dream at all.

Bed-wetting medication is only a temporary solution. Find out what else you can do to resolve bedwetting.