A review by booksofafeather
Good Night, Sleep Tight: The Sleep Lady's Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep, Stay Asleep, and Wake Up Happy by Kim West, Joanne Kenen

3.0

Compared to the Weissbluth book I find this one to be much more realistic for most families. Mostly because it's less stress and less emotionally trying for both parent and child than complete CIO. I skipped parts for now that didn't apply to use (much later school age sleep problems, twins/siblings, nightmares) but may go back to them in the future. I feel like this is much more likely to help teach a child to fall asleep, whereas I think complete CIO / extinction mostly just has a child pass out from exhausted crying and/or stop crying out because no one will come to them, not because they've learned to fall asleep.

However, my criticism would be that it doesn't talk too much about problem solving tougher cases. The book assumes your child will cry only a little (and it doesn't specify how much 'some' or 'a little' is considered) or what to do if the normal soothing techniques presented don't work. In fact occasionally the book will reference a special case and then tell you it's so rare they're not even going to cover it.... which does not help those parents who DO have that case and the book does not even reference other resources for dealing with those cases.