Sleep Training and Eclectic Therapy
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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00:00 When are babies ready for sleep training?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. I thought I would answer some patron and member emails. This first email |
| 0:06.0 | is from middle tier patron, new mom from Vienna. She writes and says, in one of your episodes |
| 0:14.2 | where you talked about sleep training, you mentioned that babies can be ready for sleep training |
| 0:20.0 | at four to six months of age. I'd love to know what's your |
| 0:23.9 | reasoning for that age range. From my developmental psychology lectures, I'd assume this claim is |
| 0:31.1 | very complicated to support empirically. If someone told me I have to wait until one year to do |
| 0:36.4 | sleep training, I'd believe that too. |
| 0:38.1 | I would love to know more of your thinking on this. |
| 0:41.3 | End of email. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, so the first thing I want to say is that we have to define sleep training because |
| 0:49.7 | to a lot of people, when you say sleep training, they think you're talking about the cry-it-out method where you're putting the kid in the crib and just leaving him in the room for eight hours and you don't go to them when they're just screaming and agony and terror and all that guys. |
| 1:08.0 | One, that isn't the only sleep training method. And two, I would never recommend that |
| 1:13.7 | sleep training method. There's so many other things you do. Like with kids, when you're trying to |
| 1:21.2 | encourage them to sleep at the night, which is usually what we're trying to do with sleep training, |
| 1:26.3 | is you might adjust your |
| 1:29.3 | feeding schedule. You might notice when the child is a little on the edge of drowsy, and if it's |
| 1:39.0 | during the day, you might play with them a little more to kind of keep them awake for another half an hour or something. |
| 1:47.0 | And at nighttime, when they wake up and they're wanting to interact, maybe you don't interact as actively. |
| 1:54.4 | You know, to just kind of subtly start to get them used to nighttime is for sleeping and daytime is for activity, even though |
| 2:03.3 | you know, they're always going to be napping throughout the day, especially when they're when |
| 2:07.8 | they're that young. So it's very rare for an infant to sleep eight hours or nine hours. Well, |
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