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Why is your child fighting bedtime?

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The Foundations
1. How consistent is your child's bedtime on school nights?
The Foundations
2. What happens in the hour before bed?
The Foundations
3. When do screens go off?
The Foundations
4. What is the bedroom like at lights out?
What is driving it
5. When you announce bedtime, your child most often...
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6. After lights out, they most often...
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7. The protest is loudest when...
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8. What calms it fastest?
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9. Bedtime is easiest on nights when...
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10. If you had to sum it up, your child is mostly...

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What is driving it

Make bed worth arriving at

The fastest way to end bedtime battles is to make getting into bed worth more than avoiding it. Give your child real choices as part of the routine, not as a reward for protesting. Do they want you to pick the story or pick it themselves, one story or two, which pyjamas, which cuddly toy goes in first.

Then attach something to the morning that they only get if bedtime goes well, like cartoons with breakfast or choosing their own outfit for the day. Name it before bedtime starts, not during the argument.

One thing to hold. Every choice has to be offered before the protest starts. Hand one over mid tantrum and you have just taught them that kicking off gets them a say.

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