Sarah ockwell-smith gentle sleep 5 books collection set

A wonderful set of books, Sarah really understands that children are people and should be treated with love, respect and kindness. Not at the expense of yourself as a parent - it's not about giving them a everything and running yourself ragged. She explains how to be a "gentle parent" brilliantly. It's absolutely possible regardless of your own experiences or your current parenting style.I really recommend Sarah's books.

I don't recommend these books. They have very little practical information or strategies in them. And the tone of writing is very much along the lines of 'suck it up' which I found very unsupportive. I've since read other books that explain Assertive/Authorative parenting in much better detail with a lot more practical advice. The sleep book in particular has very little in it, we have never sleep trained and worked with a holistic sleep coach and discovered there is a tonne of stuff based on modern research to support and improve sleep, none of which was in this book, and none of which is sleep training.

Beware. This bundle includes the old, outdated, edition of The Gentle Sleep Book, even though the image shows the cover of the newly updated edition. The old edition doesn’t contain any information about naps, nightweaning, or how to really improve sleep.