FREE GUIDE
Better Sleep for Kids
An Evidence-Based Guide to Ending Nighttime Battles
The Better Sleep for Kids guide provides a simple, effective framework using SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) to help your child build confidence and independence around sleep.
This proven method not only helps reduce nighttime battles but also builds essential skills like self-regulation, independence, and resilience—all while maintaining your warm connection with your child.
Does your child refuse to sleep in their own bed or sneak into yours at night?
What Makes This Guide Different?
Our FREE guide shares the exact SPACE strategies therapists use to end sleep struggles without trauma or tears, creating lasting independence.
Our guide gives you science-backed strategies that:
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Learn how to gradually reduce your involvement while maintaining warmth. Discover why lying with them or letting them in your bed reinforces sleep anxiety, and get step-by-step plans to change patterns gently.
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Understand the difference between supporting your child ("I know this feels hard, and I know you can do this") versus accommodating their anxiety through elaborate bedtime modifications or staying until they're asleep.
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Get specific plans: if you stay in their room, learn how to move closer to the door every few nights. If they sleep in your bed, discover how to have them start in their own bed with scheduled check-ins instead of reactive responses.
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Special strategies for children who feel things deeply, including how to validate their feelings while building sleep confidence. Learn when to support versus when you're accidentally reinforcing avoidance.
Inside Your Free Guide:
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Discover why children who refuse their own bed or wake frequently have often learned that nighttime anxiety leads to parent involvement. Understand how your response—not your child's behavior—is the key to lasting change.
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Learn how Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions applies to sleep struggles. Get the framework for being warm and validating while reducing accommodations that keep your child dependent.
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Identify what you're doing that accidentally reinforces sleep anxiety: staying in their room, letting them sleep in yours, or making elaborate modifications. Learn why these well-meaning responses keep the cycle going.
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Get specific strategies for gradually reducing accommodations: how to move from staying in their room to outside their door, how to transition from co-sleeping to independent sleep with scheduled check-ins.
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Learn scripts that show confidence in your child's ability while acknowledging their feelings. Discover how to teach that discomfort isn't dangerous and that they are fully capable of sleeping independently.
