by Moorea Malatt | Jun 7, 2021 | Sleep
Understanding Night Terrors It isn’t paranormal, but it is “parasomnia”. Parasomnia is scientific word for night terror and nightmare or other unusual sleep behavior. All children have nightmares at some point and many children have at least one episode of night...
by Moorea Malatt | May 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
(Updated 2021) I’m here to confess that I dread Mother’s Day. I feel guilty about that dread and maybe you do, too. For me, it’s kind of like my birthday (which I also don’t love) where people ask what I want and say it’s all about me but...
by Moorea Malatt | Sep 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Parents, we are not ok. But these cookies make it a little better. I’d never attempted to share this one-bowl recipe because it was my “secret” but since now three people have asked me for it since the pandemic started, I feel it is my social duty to...
by Moorea Malatt | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Transcript here. Resources at bottom. Talking to our children about racism and police violence is not just our duty to black folx as white allies, it is a service to our children. And yet so many white folx shy away from doing this hard work. Many of my acquaintances...
by Moorea Malatt | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is very popular to teach children to sing the ABC’s to help them complete a successful hand washing, but my preference as a preschool teacher and director was to teach songs about hand washing so that children don’t space out while singing the song but...
by Moorea Malatt | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
“We’ve rekindled our intimacy!” This is my favorite kind of feedback after working with a gentle sleep client. I also know that most parents are not coming back to a healthy sex life so easily, even after they begin sleeping again. The Madonna-Whore...
by Moorea Malatt | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I hate giving warnings like this because I think parents have enough stressful dung being flung at them but here I’m just looking out for your baby’s safety and your own future sleep! We look to anything to make life easier and to make our baby sleep and...
by Moorea Malatt | Jul 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
No matter how long your sleep exhaustion lasted, the baby’s sleeping now! Maybe you hired me as a sleep consultant, maybe you got a miracle – but now you’re the one who can’t sleep! If you’ve gone months without great sleep, your mind and...
by Moorea Malatt | Jul 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here’s my basic Insight Meditation tutorial created just for busy parents to do any time, anywhere! (Originally recorded on Facebook LIVE.) WHAT’S BETTER THAN SEX, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE ? SLEEP. Get my 10 Gentle Sleep Hacks to Help Your Little One SLEEP BETTER...
by Moorea Malatt | Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many parents notice that little ones suddenly start fighting bedtime sometime in May. But most sleep guru articles and books will tell you earlier bedtimes are always better. Studies seem to tell you this too, but they aren’t accounting for hormonal regulation...
