Happy Days Rested Nights

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010 - Why do they keep waking up overnight? Oct 16, 2019

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Why do they keep waking up overnight?

with Samantha Day

In this weeks episode, Samantha talks about a trend that she is seeing in questions from parents. Night wakings with our little one's are age appropriate at first but they reach a place where a goal of solid sleep overnight is possible and important. Samantha goes into detail on the 6 reasons your child may be waking overnight and offers a solution as well.

This week she also announces the launch of her new way to assist parents. Nix those Night Wakings is an instructional video series where parents can learn directly from Sam, create their own sleep plan, eliminate night wakings and get on the path to the goal of solid sleep in a way that fits their family. She pushes pass the controversy of "sleep training" and focuses on teaching sleep in a way that fits each family. The series includes 5 different teaching methods.

You can find eliminate those night wakings by visiting Samantha at www.samanthadayconsulting.com/immediate-assistance/

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

009 - The Building Blocks to Creating Open Communication with your Children about Sex Oct 09, 2019

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Episode 9

Title – The Building Blocks to Creating open communication with your children about Sex

Subtitle – with Kristin Hodson

Kristin Hodson is a certified sex therapist and mother of three. She has devoted her life to supporting parent, partners and professionals become the sex experts in their own lives and in their family. She teaches human sexuality at a Master's level, hosts regular workshops in her community and around the country, is regularly sought out as an expert in the media and has an ever growing online community through instagram where she drops daily nuggets of sexual health information and wisdom. Additionally, she is the founder and CEO of The Healing Group, a mental health practice in Utah that specializes in sexual health, maternal mental health and couple's work.

In this weeks episode, Samantha and Kristin go through different stages/ages of development and Kristin points out the importance of the building blocks of learning in all areas, including sexual health. She focusing on what some important building blocks are from birth through teen years. These nuggets of goodness made me really think and analyze my role as the sex expert in my family with the goal of my children knowing that I am the person they can come to with any question at any time.

Thank you, Kristin, for your time and expertise!

To connect with Kristin or find out more about all she offers you can check her out at –

Website – www.kristinbhodson.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/kristinbhodson

Children's Consent Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3nhM9UlJjc

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Episode 008 - Adventures of a Boss Mom Oct 02, 2019

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Title – Adventures of a Mom Boss

Subtitle – How to create a business that allows you to make money from with Kim Perry

Kim is a dedicated and energetic Fit Mom & business coach. She started her business fitness coaching and now she helps moms start their own businesses. Kim coaches moms through motherhood. She influences women to stay fit & create businesses that allow them to make money from home so they can spend more time with their babies.

Together, Samantha and Kim discuss how they met and developed a friendship, relate in motherhood, respect every mother choice on her goals for her family and discuss a series of topics that relate to working from home if a mom chooses to. Some of these topics are –

- What are the first steps in starting a business?

- How to start a business -

- How much does it cost to get started?

- How to balance mom life -

- Benefits of having a fulfilling career as a mom -

To connect with Kim or find out more about her Mom Boss program you can check her out at –

Website - https://kimperryco.mykajabi.com/momboss

https://kimperry.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kimperryco/

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Episode 007 - How the Language we use has the Power to Affect our Children's Behavior Sep 25, 2019

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Episode 7 – How the Language we use has the Power to Affect our Children's Behavior

In this episode we are continuing our talk about behavior. Language and communication is powerful. Sometimes so powerful that it has the power to affect or change our children's behavior in ways we never knew possible. We are digging into 4 different ways, brainstorming how they can affect behavior, giving examples and what to do consider saying instead.

Points to brainstorm –

1 – Reverse Psychology

2 – Excess Language

3 – Confidence Building Language

4 – Talking about them in front of them

Some additional resources from the episode –

Samantha's Children's Books –

Sleepy Susie - https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/meet-sleepy-susie/

Sleepy Steve - https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/meet-sleepy-steve/

Generation Mindful Kit - https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/product/generation-mindful/

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Every Monday on Instagram, we do a Monday Question Series where Samantha answers some submitted questions for us to all learn and brainstorm together. Join us at the Instagram link above!

Episode 006 - Forming a Healthy Relationship with Food Sep 18, 2019

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Episode 6 – Forming a Healthy Relationship with Food

with Renae D'Andrea – Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

Renae is a registered dietitian nutritionist who focuses on child and family nutrition. Her passion is supporting families at all different stages of feeding, and helping them to achieve their goal of feeding their kids as healthfully as they can. She earned her Masters' degree in Nutrition from Colorado State University, where her focus was childhood nutrition. She lives in California with her husband and daughter, and spends her days helping parents with everything from how to start solid foods with their babies to how to help their older children work through picky eating.

In this episode we talk about all things food. Renae is so easy to talk to and extremely knowledgeable. In this 30 minute episode we dig into our relationships with food, how to introduce them, how to talk about it, picky eaters and more!

You can find Renae at newwaysnutrition.com, where you will find lots of resources and articles to help you with navigating feeding your child.

You can also find her at www.instagram.com/newwaysnutrition where she shares more daily tips and tricks around feeding and childhood nutrition.

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Episode 005 - The Truth about Cry it Out Sep 11, 2019

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The Truth about Cry It Out

What is really important when it comes to reaching sleep goals?

In this weeks episode we are talking about the a very controversial topic in the parenting world, cry it out. There are big thoughts and feeling associated with these three words. Together, we are looking at what it really means but more importantly what it is not. Instead of focusing on the path to sleep, we are focusing on what is most important and that is that we are all getting the sleep that we need in a way that fits our family. No matter your thoughts on the cry it out method, I think we can all agree on one thing. I am excited for you to take a listen!

For families that are ready to start on their individual path to sleep, please feel free to check out the links below for some ways to do so. Samantha's one on one consulting

https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/services/

Samantha's Immediate Assistance Instructional Video Series options -

https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/immediate-assistance/

To learn a little more about Sam or follow along –

https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com

https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

Communication and Language Development in Children Sep 04, 2019

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Episode 4 - Communication and Language Development in Children

with Jana Olberg - Speech Language Pathologist

That first smile, coo, work and sentence! Ahh, it is music to our ears, isn't it? In this episode we are talking with Jana Olberg. She is a wife, mother of 4 and Speech Language Pathologist who is passionate about communication and development. She does an amazing job of walking us through age appropriate expectations of communication development, gives us red flags to look for and points us in the right direction of what to do if we have questions. Thank you, Jana, for joining us!

To reference the sources Jana referred to at the end of the episode please visit -

American Speech Language Hearing Association (scroll down for information for the public)

www.asha.org

Early Intervention Reference

www.hanen.org

To find out more about Samantha or to join her -

Website - https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

Facebook -

https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

Creating a Play Space that Promotes Learning, Connection and Organization Aug 28, 2019

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Episode 3 - Creating a Play Space that Promotes Learning, Connection and Organization with Samantha Day

In this episode we are talking about play! Play is so important for children as they learn more during play than most other activities in their day. Join me while we talk about tips for creating a play space in your home that has the power to promote learning, connection and organization.

To find more about Samantha or to join her -

https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com

https://instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

Episode 002 - Tips for Promoting Positive Behavior in our Homes Aug 20, 2019

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In this episode we are talking about positive behavior with our children and tips for teaching, guiding and modeling behavior that we want to see more of. We dig into 5 strategies that we can implement in our families one at a time or all together with the goal of a happy and rested home.

Tip 1 – Making Sleep a Priority

Tip 2 – Emotional Regulation

Tip 3 – Quality Time

Tip 4 – Responding to Behaviors

Tip 5 – Control Opportunities

To find out more about Samantha or to join her –

Website – https://www.samanthadayconsulting.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting/

Episode 001 - Nap Transitions Aug 20, 2019

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In this episode we are taking a deeper look into nap transitions, how many naps our children need and how we know a transition is coming soon. Together we go over specifics from birth through the transition away from napping in the childhood years.

To find out more about Samantha or to join her -

Website - www.samanthadayconsulting.com Instagram - www.instagram.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting Facebook - www.facebook.com/samanthadaysleepconsulting

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