TALK YOUR CHILDREN THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES WITH THE HELP OF:

"SLEEP TALK: A Breakthrough Technique for Helping Your
Child Cope with Stress and Thrive Through Difficult Transitions"

"SLEEP TALK" is a breakthrough technique to help children effectively deal with various age-specific issues, allowing parents to help children through difficult times. The "SLEEP TALK" scripts affirm positive behavior while a child is asleep.

Published by NTCI Contemporary Publishing Company Group as its lead fall title (September, 1999, $21.95), "SLEEP TALK: A Breakthrough Technique for Helping Your Child Cope With Stress and Thrive Through Difficult Transitions", provides parents and other caregivers with an innovative way to help children, and adults, through difficult and stressful times.

Registered pediatric nurse, Lois Haddad, R.N., developed the "SLEEP TALK" technique as she cared for chronically ill children on the Pediatric Floor of U. C. L. A. Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. She uttered positive messages to her young patients as they were sleeping and found the children responded well to her nightly talk, which helped them on their road to recovery.

This innovative practice can be applied to a myriad of child problems, from night waking, thumb sucking and health issues, to school phobia and getting along with others.

Lois Haddad explains in simple terms how "SLEEP TALK" works and why it works. Included in the book are dozens of sample scripts, which may be used by parents as is, or adapted to fit each child's sit"SLEEP TALK" to address their children's problems, and bear witness to its effectiveness.

In addition to nursing, Lois Haddad, R.N., is an accomplished teacher and lecturer. She has taught relaxation, stress management, visualization and healing workshops in schools, companies and medical clinics for over 20 years. Her SLEEP TALK classes and consultations guide parents with stressful areas in their children's lives.

Haddad suggests that parents continue "SLEEP TALK" after any problem has been conquered, to maintain a stream of love and support. The practice, she says, is "mutually beneficial for parents and children. For adults, it provides a chance to release negativity and reinforce the love and pride for the child. For children, it is an effective low stress way to modify behavior and personality traits."