What is Good Night, Sleep Tight?
Good Night, Sleep Tight is written by Kim West, the self-proclaimed Sleep Lady, who has more than 10 years of experience in helping parents get their children to sleep well. The book is essentially a parental self-help program for the same. It is almost 400 pages long, but it’s divided into clear sections so that no parent will probably ever need to read every chapter. The Sleep Lady begins Good Night, Sleep Tight with an introduction to her sleep program, which is entirely based upon a system she dubs the Sleep Lady Shuffle. The shuffle is a program that falls comfortably between 2 other well-know extremes of sleep training: crying it out and co-sleeping or attachment parenting. The Sleep Lady promises that by using her soothing techniques and shuffle program, there will be less tears than there are in letting your child cry it out, and more sleep for parents than there is with attachment parenting. The Sleep Lady shuffle program, which Ms. West recommends beginning around 6 months, e
