Raising Your Spirited Baby, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Raising Your Spirited Baby, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
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Raising Your Spirited Baby
A Breakthrough Guide to Thriving When Your Baby Is More...Alert and Intense and Struggles to Sleep

Author: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

“Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D., brings her expertise in raising spirited children to help you understand and soothe your spirited baby. Her research-based, parent-tested strategies will help your baby sleep better and develop a calmer, more resilient brain and nervous system. I'll be recommending this for all new parents.” —Dr. Laura Markham, founder of AhaParenting.com, and author of Peaceful Parent, Happy KidsFrom the beloved bestselling author whose award-winning parenting books have sold over 1 million copies—an indispensable guide to the unique needs of Spirited Infants™. Does your baby bursts into tears when another baby in the same situation sleeps soundly?Do the strategies your friends swear by not work with your baby?Do the upsets and shrieking come out of seemingly nowhere and take forever to subside?
Moms and dads who answer “yes,” are the parents of a spirited infant. Spirited infants are the outliers—the exceptions to the “rules,” the extraordinary ones. They arrive in this world genetically wired to be alert and intense. Spirited babies put parents to the test and raising them takes special skills and patient perseverance.In this groundbreaking new book, beloved parenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D., offers her findings in the fields of neuroscience, sleep, temperament, self-regulation, attachment, and parent-child interactions, and shares what she has learned from hands-on experiences with families to bring this much-needed perspective to the parenting of babies under eighteen months of age. She provides extensive research, parent-tested strategies, and a clear shame-free, guilt-free guide to nurturing and caring for spirited babies.Kurcinka reveals a plan for success with a 5-step Spirited Baby™ Methodology to give parents—and everyone who supports them—a how-to handbook that will be embraced as a simple, trusted companion.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Dr. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, EdD, is a bestselling author and internationally recognized lecturer and parent educator. Her books Raising Your Spirited Child; Raising Your Spirited Baby; Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook; Kids, Parents and Power Struggles; and Sleepless in America have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former director of one of Minnesota’s largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She resides in Bozeman, Montana, with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kaia on June 01, 2023

This book is empowering, non-judgmental, and truly helpful—no doubt for all parents, but especially for those of us with a spirited baby. Because my baby is so serious, I did not think when starting this book that he could be described as “spirited,” but now I know that he most definitely is. He is......more

Goodreads review by Leah on January 31, 2022

My baby was driving me up the wall with multiple daily meltdowns. During another desperate internet search, I came across this book and decided to give it a go. From the sample alone I knew this book was the help I needed. Did it give me instant fixes? No, but it did give me validation, understandin......more

Goodreads review by Sophia on January 23, 2023

A helpful book for anyone with kids or working with kids. I think this book is applicable through the younger years, and also may be a way of understanding, teaching coping strategies to adults. My own children are in the toddler years and I found this book helpful. Overall a great book with many to......more

Goodreads review by Emily on October 22, 2022

Great and informative book. Must read for parents whose baby is just a little different and more alert than the rest. This book gave me confidence and reassurance that the things that I was intuitively doing for my very spirited baby were correct. I ignored most of the sleep recommendations just for......more

Goodreads review by Alanna on October 06, 2024

Probably best to read and not listen to, to be able to get the most out of it. I still felt validated on a lot of things and picked up some good tricks. A good reminder of a helping mindset when raising a spirited child.......more