Today we are giving away three sets of two e-books to three lucky winners! Because we know how tired parents with young (and not-so-young) children are out there.
Malia Jacobson launched her second sleep-focused e-book earlier this year, just in time to help herself with baby number three! Please help me welcome Malia Jacobson!
Introducing Malia Jacobson
Malia Jacobson is a nationally published health journalist, author, columnist, sleep expert, and freelance writer. She began her journey toward sleep expertise while researching her first daughter’s sleep troubles. Today, her articles on sleep and health appear regularly in national media outlets, including Women’s Health Magazine, Costco Connection Magazine, Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine, ABC News, and MSN Healthy Living, as well as over 90 regional parenting magazines across the US and Canada. She appears regularly on television and speaks to parenting groups about healthy sleep support.
Her sleep question-and-answer column “Counting Sheep” appears in Metroparent magazine, and her monthly parenting column “Growing Up” appears in Charlotte Parent magazine. In 2011 she published her first e-book Ready, Set, Sleep: 50 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep, So You Can Sleep Too. Her second e-book Sleep Tight, Every Night: Helping Toddlers & Preschoolers Sleep Well Without Tears, Tricks, or Tirades launched in early 2013. Learn more about Malia at www.maliajacobson.com.
Learn about Ready, Set, Sleep: 50 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep, So You Can Sleep Too
Ready, Set, Sleep takes parents step-by-step through the process of creating a sleep-friendly home and family environment, resolving sleep resistance, removing barriers to sleep, and overcoming common sleep challenges. The tips and tactics are designed for children from birth through age three.
Ready, Set, Sleep helps parents end night waking, bedtime battles, early waking, and more, with compassion and respect. Parents can experience the joy of parenting a well-rested child without resorting to harsh tactics or rigid sleep training.
Learn about Sleep Tight, Every Night: Helping Toddlers and Preschoolers Sleep Well Without Tears, Tricks, or Tirades
As the follow-up to Ready, Set, Sleep, Sleep Tight, Every Night provides specific sleep solutions for children during one of the most challenging periods for sleep—age two to six. Instead of resorting to punishment, letting children cry, or simply trudging through years of sleepless nights, parents can end the sleep wars by quickly getting to the root of a child’s specific sleep challenges, sidestepping common problems, utilizing little-known secrets to sleep success, and working with a child’s natural drive for sleep.
Sleep Tight, Every Night includes 12 short sections covering a specific sleep challenge. In each one, I walk parents through a solution from start to finish with easy-to-implement tactics to help get your kids’ sleep on track and sustain your success. Chapters include Breaking the Overtired Cycle: Getting Back to Happy; Correcting Under-tiredness: Stopping the Stealthy Sleep Stealer; and Building a Better Bedtime: Finding Your Child’s Ideal Bedtime and Making it Work.
I asked Malia three questions about our giveaway’s theme topic, self-expression:
1. Is self-expression an important part of your life today, why or why not?
Self-expression is woven into every part of my life, both as a writer and as a parent. Even in the most straightforward service article, I’m expressing an aspect of my worldview. As a parent of three young children, I’m constantly encouraging self-expression (“Use your words!”) and trying to model positive ways to express feelings and opinions.
2. What does self-expression mean to you and how do you do it in the world?
In my work as a health journalist, I arm readers with information to help them solve everyday problems and live healthier lives. Generally, my articles are full of interviews, statistics, studies, and facts—but there’s still room for self-expression amid all that data. In fact, one of the things I enjoy most about my writing work is figuring out how to knit together the facts and studies in a way that’s relatable and easy to read, and letting my own voice shine through in the process. It’s always a challenge, but it’s one that feels fresh and engaging in each writing project I take on.
3. How does your self-expression impact the world—your family, your friends, your readers, and everyone else?
As a sleep journalist, I give parents information that I think will help them solve their children’s sleep struggles. My point of view comes from my own experiences with my children, as well as my work with countless other parents of young children. It’s different from the information parents might get from another sleep expert, because my experiences and my approach are unique.
When I was a frustrated new parent myself, I didn’t find the kind of sleep advice I needed, which I why I decided to share my own. That’s one key reason that I want to reach my fellow parents—I want them to know that they’re not alone, that they can help their children sleep well without battling them, and that the entire process can be something that strengthens their bond with their child. If the information I share can help another parent solve common parenting struggles and enjoy the crazy ride that is raising young children, I’m happy.
And Now, Your Turn…
You remember how this works right?
Please read the complete rules at least once!
I ask you a question.
You answer in the comments for your chance to win a book each day.
Please just respond once, even if you make a typo. 
Answer in the comments in 50-200 words (no less and no more to qualify to win one of today’s books).
Are you a good sleeper? Why or why not? Do you like sleep or just tolerate it? Night owl or early riser? How would you describe your relationship with sleep?
Ready, set, comment! I will hold the drawing tomorrow and post the results here in my blog.
Thanks for participating in the Writer Mama Every-Day-In-May Book Giveaway!
And thanks for spreading the word. We will be giving away great books by wonderful women authors all month.
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If I have nothing on my mind I’m a good sleeper. There is nothing like a good night’s sleep to revitalize me. But if there is something I have to get done or have fallen behind on I will wake up on the hour after 3 AM until I give in, get up and do it. Like today, I have missed a few days on the book give away due to other responsibilities.
But I hate to miss. So I tossed and turned until 6 AM and here I am. Glad to be here! It’s kind of a love hate relationship.
Sleep? What’s that? My kids usually sleep pretty well through the night, but sometimes getting to sleep is a challenge—and I have an early riser. I actually love getting up early in the morning all by myself, but I don’t often get to do it, and I know I don’t go to be on time. I’m not a good napper though (which is good because I couldn’t take one if I wanted to).
Sleep has been something I’ve been good at most of my life. I’ve always loved to end my day with prayer and a good book, both things which usually prepare me well for sleep, but in the season of having a newborn, sleep was something I came to appreciate more, and I learned to take adult naps, something which I loathed even in college. Now, I don’t take sleep for granted. For the last five years sleep has been a struggle. Stress, worries, working too hard, grief, and depression have often inhibited my ability to get enough sleep or may have been a result of lack of good sleep. I am learning to take rest more seriously, but if I don’t get a good night of sleep, well, that’s the breaks. It is getting easier not to become frustrated with lack of sleep and to shake it off knowing that I will fall asleep easier the next time because I’m overtired. Sleep is good. I love having a good night’s sleep!
Christina, amazing that you should ask. Just this morning I woke up at 6:30 when I needed to go to the bathroom. I thought about staying up and returning to my computer. I thought about going for a walk on the Plaza. But I went back to bed.
When I was in college and president of the women’s honor dorm, I lost hours of sleep worrying about the dean of women’s attitude toward some of the girls.
When I obtained a dream job traveling in nine states after I finished graduate school, I lost sleep worrying about how a presentation could have gone better. I learned how to turn off my worries.
In 2005 I began taking medication for bipolar disorder. One of the pills I take makes me fall asleep within minutes of when I lie down. Now that I am retired I love being able to wake up without an alarm. I love sleeping, so much that I sometimes take a nap in the afternoon.
I’m a sound sleeper because I never get enough. Most weekdays I don’t
finish everything I need to do that day until after midnight and wake up at
6:30 a.m., so I survive on six hours of sleep a night. Some weekends I’ll try
to sleep in until 9 or 10, but I have to admit our pediatrician was right when
he told my teenage daughter, “Sleep is not a bank. You can’t save up extra
hours you don’t use on schooldays and cash them in on Saturday.” I enjoy sleep because it reboots my brain. I’ve
always been a night owl and often work all night. Now I’m an early riser too
because if I don’t go to the gym first thing in the morning, I don’t go at all.
Because I never get enough, my relationship with sleep is one of craving.
I love to sleep. And it’s a good thing, too, because something with my health is making me sleep all the time these days. My husband and I are both 9-hours-a-night people (it’s amazing we found each other), and these days, I can sleep my nine hours and then lie down mid-morning for a nap, and then lie down post lunch and take another nap. If left to my natural self, I’d stay up late and sleep in, but my husband likes to go to bed early so I typically follow him.