Table Of Contentby Arthur Lavin,MD and Susan Glaser,MA
Baby & Toddler
Sleep Solutions
FOR
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Baby & Toddler
Sleep Solutions
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by Arthur Lavin,MD and Susan Glaser,MA
Baby & Toddler
Sleep Solutions
FOR
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About the Authors
Arthur Lavin, M.D., F.A.A.P., is a pediatrician who’s been in private
practice for over 20 years and is also an associate clinical professor
of pediatrics at Case Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio. He was
trained and then taught at Harvard and MIT in pediatrics and the
specialty of newborn medicine and has published original research
in such journals as Science. He is also the coauthor of Who’s the Boss:
Moving Families from Conflict to Collaboration (Collaboration Press,
2006), a book presenting a new paradigm of parenting with specific
guidance on managing the most common challenges of parenting
young children such as toilet training, sibling rivalry, and discipline.
Lavin’s professional experience includes training by T. Berry
Brazelton, M.D. and Mel Levine, M.D. He has served on a number
of national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics,
helping to create standards for community pediatrics and to draft
manuals for teaching American pediatricians to care for children
with special health care needs. In 1998, Lavin accepted an invitation
by the United States government to participate in an overseas
health partner mission. In addition, Microsoft showcased Lavin’s
office, Advanced Pediatrics, in its launch of Office 2003. He is mar-
ried and has three children.
Susan B. Glaser, M.A., is an educational psychologist and early
childhood educator with more than 30 years of experience in
supporting families of young children. She graduated from Case
Western Reserve University, where she worked with noted educator
Jane Kessler, Ph.D. in a school for children with special needs; she
received her master’s degree from John Carroll University.
Glaser served for 15 years as the Director of Early Childhood
Services for the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. She cur-
rently works as a national consultant, traveling the United States
and Canada to assess early childhood centers and present work-
shops for parents and teachers. She contributes to the parent Web
site of the national association of Jewish Community Centers.
Glaser is the chairperson of the Infant/Toddler Network of the
Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE), a national
group devoted to furthering and improving education. She is also
a member of the Universal Pre-K Committee of Cuyahoga County,
Ohio. Her articles on parenting appear in newspapers and national
publications in the field of early child development. She coauthored
Who’s the Boss: Moving Families from Conflict to Collaboration
(Collaboration Press, 2006) with Dr. Lavin. Glaser is married and
has three grown children.
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Dedication
To Laurel, Rebecca, Joshua, Jeremy, Abigail, and Hannah.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
We acknowledge with love and gratitude the support, love, and
inspiration from our spouses, Richard Glaser and Diane E. Lavin,
without whom this work could not have been completed. It was
they who helped us reach, explore, learn, and share. With our grati-
tude and love, we also want to acknowledge our children. It was
they who taught us with their love how to guide and still love.
We thank Alison Blake, who has done an extraordinary job of helping
us fashion this book into a format that is enjoyable, and familiar to
all the world that loves the For Dummies series. To our acquisitions
editor, Tracy Boggier, we remain grateful for the initial idea of this
book, the opportunity to make it so widely available. To our project
editor, Kristin DeMint, and our copy editor, Pam Ruble, many thanks
for a wonderful working relationship and invaluable editing as our
manuscript came to life. Finally, to our agent, Margot Maley
Hutchison, thank you for bringing us together with Wiley Publishing,
bringing our insights and passion for parenting to light.
Dr. Lavin: No one learns alone, and I would like to thank those who
most helped me think about caring for children and their families:
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Dr. Mel Levine, Dr. F. Sessions Cole, Dr. Phil
Hill, Dr. Jerry Hass, Dr. Alan Nauss, Dr. Francis Rushton, Dr. Cal Sia,
and the Division of Community Pediatrics of the American Academy
of Pediatrics. All the important threads in my professional develop-
ment came together in our office, Advanced Pediatrics. I thank our
wonderful team of staff and professionals who every day reach out
to families and offer what is needed most: a listening ear, an eager-
ness to help, and a commitment to offer the best expertise possible.
Ultimately the greatest honor is to be asked to help someone, so I
deeply thank the families who have placed the greatest gift, their
trust, into my hands.
Ms. Glaser: I wish to thank Dr. Jane Kessler, who was my mentor at
the Mental Development Center of Case Western Reserve University;
Eleanor Wiesberger, who inspired me to write a book about parents
based on practical, developmentally appropriate ideas that work;
my colleagues at the Jewish Community Center, especially Cindy
Bruder and Barb McDonald, who were my touchstones for sharing
ideas and strategies; and Judith Pitlick and Devra Adlestein, with
whom I shared long walks and longer discussions about children’s
development. And most of all, I thank the young parents who have
entered my life and allowed me to become part of theirs while their
families grew and developed.
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