title: The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent's Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep from Birth to Age 5
author:  Jennifer Waldburger 
description: Jennifer Waldburger, LCSW, is a trained psychotherapist and partner of Sleepy Planet, the preeminent parenting/sleep company in LA. She is a former writer and editor for Town &amp; Country, Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Harper's Bazaar.
zlib_text: **Episode 1 – Getting Up**
  
   **GLOSSARY**
  
   **to get up** – to get out of bed; to leave one’s bed
  
  * He didn’t get up until 11:00 this morning, because he was up late last night reading in bed.
  
   **alarm** (also **alarm clock** ) – a small machine usually with a clock that
  makes a sound to wake one up at a specific time
  
  * I want to make sure we have enough time to get ready in the morning. Should I  
  set the alarm for 6:45 or 7:00?
  
   **to go off** – to make a loud noise very suddenly
  
  * Her alarm clock went off very early this morning because she wanted to go running before class.
  
   **snooze button** – a button on an alarm clock that stops the noise of the
  alarm for five or ten minutes so that one can rest before the alarm goes off
  again
  
  * He is so lazy that sometimes he hits the snooze button seven or eight times before he gets up!
  
   **to wake up** – to awaken; to stop sleeping
  
  * Please be quiet or you’ll wake up the baby! It took two hours to get him to sleep.
  
   **night owl** – a 