Nadia Hollins’s son was referred for behaviour three times before anybody in the room asked what his nights were like.
Adherence to therapy is reviewed at two weeks, six weeks and three months, because almost all abandonment happens inside the first month.
Six months on
Time in bed is compressed to match time actually asleep, then widened week by week as efficiency climbs. It is counter-intuitive by design and explained as such in session one.
Sleepy children don’t look sleepy. They look difficult. That single fact costs us years.
Dr. Amara Oyelaran, paediatric sleep
What the study showed
Nothing in the course is advice about darkened rooms or herbal tea. Participants are frequently disappointed by this in week one and grateful for it by week six.
“He’s the same child,” she says. “He’s just had a full night’s sleep for eleven months.”
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