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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems about Sleep, I>Solve, Child's with the genre: Parenting & Relationships, Parenting.
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conversations.value: When your child isn't sleeping, chances are that you aren't either. <I>Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems</I>--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on the author's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. New parents will benefit from the author's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Detailed, Detailed, sleepwalking.
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conversations.value: When your child isn't sleeping, chances are that you aren't either. <I>Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems</I>--a tired parent's essential for more than 10 years--offers valuable advice and concrete help when lullabies aren't enough to lull your child into dreamland. Based on the author's research as the director of Boston's Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Children's Hospital, the book is a practical, easy-to-understand guide to common sleeping problems for children ages one to six. Detailed case histories on night waking, difficulty sleeping, and more serious disorders such as sleep apnea and sleepwalking help illustrate a wide variety of problems and their solutions. New parents will benefit from the author's proactive advice on developing good sleeping patterns and daily schedules to ensure that sleeping problems don't develop in the first place. You'll also find a bibliography of children's books on bedtime, sleep, and dreaming, as well as a list of helpful organizations. Here's a book that is sure to put you and your whole family to sleep--in this case, that's a good thing.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems
  So why did I see the need, twenty years later, for this revised and considerably expanded edition? There are three main reasons.
  The first reason is to correct some widespread misconceptions regarding my methods and their application. My goals have always been to help parents understand the nature of sleep and of childhood sleep problems, determine the causes of their own child's sleep difficulties, and choose or design an appropriate treatment program that fits their own philosophy of child rearing. I have always believed that the more you understand about your child's sleep problems, the more humane and effective you can be in solving them. A child may cry repeatedly each night, for example, but until parents understand why that is happening and institute proper treatment, they may be unable to resolve it in a way they find satisfactory.
  In this edition I have attempted to make it much clearer that there are many different sleep problems, that apparently identical sleep problems may have different causes in different children, and that a single sleep problem may have multiple contributing causes. To properly choose a treatment, one must take all these factors into account. Each problem and cause may require a different treatment (what works well for one problem may be inappropriate for another), and all component causes may have to be treated (a partial solution is no solution at all). In addition, often a number of treatment options are available, some of which fit a particular child's needs or personality and his or her parents' desires better than others. I have tried to present more of these choices so that you, the reader, can find an approach you believe appropriate and are comfortable with, whether you live in a big home or small, sleep separately or together, or have one child or many; and whether your child is nervous or confident, cooperative or difficult, outgoing or shy.
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conversations.value: If your child wakes on his own every morning at the desired hour but seems to have difficulty falling asleep on time, then he may simply not need as much sleep as you think (see "The too-long-in-bed problem" in the next chapter). If he falls asleep easily at the desired bedtime but has difficulty waking in the morning, he may need more sleep than you think, and his bedtime may have to be moved earlier. But if both ends of his sleep phase are too late, so he has trouble falling asleep at the desired bedtime and then either has trouble waking in the morning or sleeps later than you would like, this section will help you.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' It is hoped that such research will lead not only to better treatment of symptoms but also to treatments directed at the cause of the disease itself, and thus effectively to a cure.'.
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conversations.value: Cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis usually respond well to medications ordinarily used in the treatment of depression, namely the tricyclics and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Sodium oxybate given at night, although not an antidepressant, also decreases cataplexy significantly, perhaps because of its known effect of improving sleep and decreasing REM onsets (though how it does that is unknown).
  The symptoms of hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis, if they are present at all, don't always need to be treated, especially if they are mild and occasional. They are annoying and somewhat frightening, but they are not dangerous, and once children understand why these symptoms occur they often learn to accept them. If a child's cataplexy is very mild and episodes are rare, treatment may also be postponed. But if the cataplexy is dangerous, embarrassing, or frightening, it should be treated.
  Jacqueline's cataplexy was moderately severe, and besides, it was important to her that she be able to laugh freely in public without fear of embarrassment or of injuring herself. So her medication program included treatment for cataplexy, and both that symptom and her sleep paralysis were easily controlled. If Brendan required similar treatment, it probably would not be for several years, but he and his family knew what to look for and would understand the symptoms if and when they appeared.
  A number of drugs to treat the symptoms of narcolepsy are in varying stages of development, including some that mimic the effects of the deficient hypocretin molecule itself. It is hoped that such research will lead not only to better treatment of symptoms but also to treatments directed at the cause of the disease itself, and thus effectively to a cure.