Sleep-Wrecked Kids.
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Too many kids are sleep-wrecked
Well-slept children bloom
Take a few minutes to discover why every child needs great sleep every night. Sleep
Wrecked Kids is written for parents, however, every person with small children in
their care – parents, caregivers, early childhood education professionals and health
professionals all have a role to play, being ‘the ‘lifeguards’ of children’s sleep.
About The Book
Discover 7 tailored assessments to target sleep red flags
Assess whether your kids are sleep deprived with 7 assessments that outline the key indicators, habits and behaviours that show up in sleep-deprived kids, and determine whether further action is necessary
25 - 40% of children have sleep problems, and these problems can start the pattern for a lifetime of health, behaviour and learning problems.
In Sleep-Wrecked Kids, discover how to help your kids grow and thrive by getting the sleep they need.
Raising Healthy Kids
Raising healthy kids in today’s world who are fit for life brings our lifestyle breathing and sleep health under the microscope. The nourishment our children receive in every sense of the word sets them up for life and the solutions are not complicated. The earlier we nourish, the sooner our children can ‘shine, flourish and bloom’.
In the same way that flowers develop vitality, vibrant colour and grow well when we prepare the soil well, so too do children when health foundations are nurtured. So, breathe well little ones, sleep well little ones, so you can bloom. Optimising children’s sleep and breathing health in their earliest years is a gift for life – ‘airway fit 4 life’.
Just some of what you'll learn from Sleep-Wrecked Kids
Discover the importance of sleep for kids
Sleep isn’t a luxury – Sleep is the number 1 pillar of health. It’s an essential foundation for your child’s brain development. Good sleep nurtures every aspect of your child’s development. If your kids aren’t getting the sleep they need, they may struggle to catch up for years to come.
Discover why every parent needs to be the lifeguard of their children’s sleep
Guarding your child’s sleep, ensuring they get great sleep consistently, is one of your most powerful health, growth and development tools. It’s also a window to your own sleep!
Discover the good sleep formula - the ultimate goal
Discover what good sleep actually looks like, including the recommended sleep hours for different ages and what to expect in terms of quality. You’ll also discover what bad sleep looks like, including common sleep disorders.
Discover 7 tailored assessments to target sleep red flags
Assess whether your kids are sleep deprived with 7 assessments that outline the key indicators, habits and behaviours that show up in sleep-deprived kids, and determine whether further action is necessary.
Discover the critical window of opportunity for children’s brain development
Ninety percent of a child’s brain development is complete by age 5.
Discover why every parent needs to be the eyes and ears of airway health
Who else is going to watch? Who else is going to recognise simple daily patterns that are the earliest indicators of inefficient breathing?
Discover how to know and what to do if your child ‘s breathing is disrupting their sleep
Good sleep is not just about routines and environment. Your child’s airway health has a big impact on sleep quality. Even mild breathing disruptions can have a big impact on sleep quality. Learn how airway fitness activities can improve airway health and breathing.
Discover how our ‘airways’ are changing over time, and how that impacts our breathing
It’s true, the shape, size and position of our airway structures have changed. Our jaws are growing smaller. Our thirty-two adult teeth no longer fit in our smaller jaws and it effects how we breath!
Discover The critical window of opportunity to optimise children’s breathing health
Healthy breathing depends on healthy airway growth and development, and much of it is complete before a child even reaches school age.
Discover how to set up the ideal sleep environment so that good sleep is possible.
If your kids are struggling with sleep routines, bedtime behaviours and sleep space that’s not conducive to good sleep, but there are some simple guidelines that can be adapted to most homes.
Discover how daily routines, impact how well children can fall asleep and stay asleep
Simple changes to your child’s physical and emotional environment, daily routines and behaviours may be enough to have them sleeping through the night – for example, exposure to early morning sunlight, routine meal and activity times through the day, and key moments of connection form patterns that support falling asleep easily.
Discover 20+ specialists who can help your kids sleep
It takes a village to raise a child, and sometimes you’ll need a village to help your kids sleep. To help you find your village, Sleep-Wrecked Kids outlines 20 different professionals and the different areas they can address when it comes to hitting the right sleep formula for your kids.
Children are 100% dependent on the adults who care for them to advocate for their health
Little people cannot advocate for their own health, so it’s up to us.
Discover so much more:
- why every early childhood professional needs to be the eyes and ears of airway health
- what parents can do at home to set up their children for sleep success
- why every early childhood professional needs to be the lifeguard of children’s sleep
- who can help when children’s sleep problems are tricky to solve
Japanese Translation
Sleep Wrecked kids is now published in Japanese. To celebrate this publication, on 23rd February 2025, the Nippon Pediatric Development Society (NPDs) hosted a landmark event at the Tokyo International Forum, attended by 1000+ health professionals who care for young children. NPD has one goal in mind – nurturing children’s ‘airway and sleep health’ from a child’s earliest years, collaborating across health disciplines. All participants were there for one reason alone – to help children get the sleep they need every night to be healthy and happy, with Sharon Moore as their presenter for the day.
What has The Jelly Fish© got to do with children’s sleep and breathing? In a nutshell children learn new things best through music and movement. So, when adults are learning how to deliver activities to little ones, it is immersive and experiential – they get to do the activities too!
During the full day workshop at the Tokyo International Forum, we explored how to raise children who breathe well, so they can sleep well. We all did The Jelly Fish! How cool to see 1000+ adult healthcare professionals, smiling, on their feet, in the imaginary ocean. The Jelly Fish is one of hundreds of different activities we can do with our little ones to fortify their breathing. If you want to learn more, stay tuned.
After a jam-packed day of learning from presenter Sharon Moore, on 23 February 2025, the Nippon Pediatric Development Society hosted an ancient ceremony ‘Sakazuki’ which involves breaking the lid of a sake barrel, to celebrate the publication of the Japanese translation of Sleep Wrecked Kids. Kudos to the NPDS.
Foreign language translation for Sleep Wrecked Kids
We receive many requests to translate Sleep Wrecked Kids. If you want to make this happen, please please contact Morgan James Publishing,. – https://www.morgan-james-publishing.com/
About The Author
Sharon Moore
Sharon Moore is a speech pathologist with more than four decades of clinical experience across a range of communication and swallowing disorders. She has worked in diverse clinical settings in Australia and London.
Sharon has run a private practice in Canberra, Australia working almost exclusively with medical and dental specialist referrals. Traditional speech pathology work, combined with a myriad of clinical tools that treat ‘things that go wrong in the airway’ have provided a comprehensive approach to managing airway disorders that impact daily breathing, swallowing, chewing, voice, resonance, speech and breathing challenges during sleep.
The increasingly popular orofacial myofunctional therapy is one tool amongst others that assists in a comprehensive strategy to solve ‘things that go wrong in the airway’ that impact daily breathing, and in particular breathing challenges during sleep.
Sharon has a special interest in identifying when ‘airway growth, teeth and jaw development’ are off track.
This applies not just in children with complex medical disorders, but children who are otherwise healthy. Why? Because when the face, jaws and airway are not growing as nature intended, it creates the perfect conditions for breathing disruption during sleep.
Not only that, when airway health and development is ‘off track’ it can be recognised in children from birth and well before they start school. In fact, stay tuned for Sharon’s publication ‘Bloom’ in 2026, that outlines what 2-5 year-old children need to ensure optimum airway growth ‘as nature intended’ in their earliest years. Sharon believes we have a magnificent window of opportunity to help parents get it right before kids start school.
There has never been a more important time for medical, dental and allied health professionals to work as a team alongside parents and early childhood professionals, with the significant consequences of sleep disorders in all ages now widely known. As a mum, author and health professional, Sharon translates her knowledge of sleep health and delivers it right to parents’ fingertips.
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Bloom is a book about airway health, that starts by paying attention to the foundations of health, so that healthy breathing is possible. This is never more important than in a child’s earliest years, well before they start school.
About the Book
Supercharging Airway Fitness - for all the little ones in your care
Bloom is a gentle, encouraging book about supporting your child’s health right from the very beginning – from Day 1. Because when children are healthy early on, they’re better supported to grow into strong, resilient little humans who are truly fit for life.
At the heart of good health is something many parents already know, that breathing, eating and sleeping well really matters i.e. being airway fit.
Bloom is filled with simple, playful activities for little ones that support healthy airway development in a child’s earliest years, age 2-5 years. It also helps parents recognise early signs when airway health may be drifting off track – so you can act early, with confidence.
As parents and caregivers, we have a wonderful opportunity to shape our children’s health in these early years. Just like a flower needs healthy soil to grow, children need strong foundations. Bloom introduces the four pillars of health – everyday essentials that nourish the body, support growing brains, and strengthen immunity during those precious early years.
When the four pillars of health are nurtured – alongside healthy breathing, eating and sleeping – they create a powerful recipe for vitality that kickstart a lifetime of healthy, growth and development. Children can reach their true potential.
The reassuring message of Bloom is this: health doesn’t have to be complicated. The most powerful solutions are found in the small, loving lifestyle choices we make every day.
With realistic, family-friendly daily activities. Bloom shows how you can gently support your child’s breathing, eating and sleep, and overall health so they can truly bloom from Day 1.
Bloom
• A practical guide to airway health• Simple everyday support to nurture breathing and sleep• Clear guidance on the four pillars of health• Built on the power of everyday family choices
Interviews With Sleep Experts
Learn more about the kids’ sleep puzzle
Dr Harriet Hiscock 'Kids Sleep and the kids' books that can help!'
Professor Harriet Hiscock is an expert on children’s sleep, well known for for her seminal work on developing, testing and implementing evidence-based interventions to improve the quality, accessibility, and value of healthcare for common children’s sleep conditions, including ground- breaking trials in sleep in children with ADHD and with autism. She is author of a series of clever children’s books ‘Sleep with Kip’ designed and ‘road-tested to address common bedtime challenges.
Interview with Dr Jim Papadopoulos
Dr Jim Papadopoulos is one of Australia’s leading paediatric sleep medicine physicians and is widely known for his work with sleep studies in children, particularly children with special needs, orthodontic problems and gastro-intestinal issues.
Dr Jeevanan Jahendran 'Drilling Into the Nose'
Dr Dave Mc Carty talks about 'five kids' sleep disorders
Dr Umakanth Katwa Paediatric sleep disordered breathing in the hospital setting
Dr D Mc Intosh Signs Symptoms of dysfunctional breathing
Sharon Moore meets with Dr David Mc Intosh in this WOW interview where Dr Mc Intosh shares pearls of wisdom on recognising sleep disordered breathing in children, his favourite topic! Dr. David McIntosh, autghor of 8 books on the topic, is a highly experienced Australian ENT (Ear, Nose, & Throat) Surgeon, particularly known for his expertise in airway obstruction, sleep apnea, pediatric ENT issues, and sinus/facial development problems. He has clinical practices in Australia with a focus on holistic care and education, often linking dental/facial growth to breathing issues.
Interview with Dr Judith Owens
Dr Judith A. Owens is an internationally-recognised authority on pediatric sleep and the author of numerous original research and review articles in peer-review journals on the topic. Her particular research interest is in the neurobehavioural and health consequences of sleep problems in children. Books –
Have Some Questions?
Our Answers
Where can I get a copy of the checklists?
- It’s a free download right here on the Sleep Wrecked Kids web page.
- Alternatively, the download is provided with the audible version of Sleep Wrecked kids.
How many hours sleep does my child need?
Sleep hours vary with the age of the child.
Please download your copy below
How do I know if my child has a sleep problem?
It starts with understanding the good sleep formula – Quantity+Quality = Q+Q. Children need the right number of hours sleep in a 24-hour period, and when they are asleep it needs to be good quality, silent, uninterrupted sleep for the duration, then waking refreshed and ready for the day.
How do I know if my child’s breathing during sleep is ok?
Good breathing is silent, easy, almost imperceptible and through the nose. Any audible breathing or snoring signals the breath is moving too quickly or squeezing through a narrowed space in the airway. Breathing changes like this cause sleep interruptions that may or may not wake the child but lead to poor sleep quality, and daytime fatigue.
Who can help me if I need help?
- ‘Help’ really depends on the kind of sleep challenge a child is experiencing.
- There is a lot you can do on your own at home. If sleep health habits need a ‘tune up’, these can be quite easy to fix at home with some handy hints from Sleep Wrecked Kids. Set up a sleep sanctuary and treat sleep time as the most important part of the day. Create great sleep habits – environment, routines and behaviours.
- If however, there is an underlying medical or developmental cause of a child’s sleep disruption, there are a number of different medical or dental specialists who may be needed to assist. First, your child would need an assessment to work out the likely cause and nature of the problem.
- Stalling tactics and delayed bedtimes are common in little people. If they persist and interfere with your child getting enough sleep hours on a consistent basis, a solution is needed. You may have the perfect sleep sanctuary and bedtime routines but if they are not working, it’s time to get support. There are nurses and pediatricians and other health professionals who specialise in helping families over behavioural sleep hurdles like these e.g. Dr Harriet Hiscock, a Sleep Paediatrican author of ‘Sleep With Kip’. The book series was written to assist these types of bedtime challenges. Quote ‘wellspoken’ at checkout for a 15% discount
How do I know if my child’s behaviour is caused by poor sleep?
- If you ‘fix the sleep’ and the child’s behaviour improves, that is your answer right there.
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If you’re a parent who is ready to help your kids grow well, be happy and healthy, perform well at school, and be the very best version of themselves: Then buy Sleep-Wrecked Kids today to help the entire family enjoy a good night’s sleep.
