What to Do When Your Child Wakes Up in the Night

What to Do When Your Child Wakes Up in the Night When your child wakes up in the night and calls for you, it disrupts everyone’s sleep. If it’s happening consistently, you need to understand what’s driving it before you can address it. Night waking...
How to Help a Child With Sleep Anxiety

How to Help a Child With Sleep Anxiety

Sleep Anxiety in Children: What’s Happening and What Helps Sleep anxiety in children is one of the most common reasons primary school kids have trouble settling at bedtime. It looks like stalling, excuse-making, fear of the dark, or needing a parent present to...

Why Kids Fight Sleep Even When They’re Tired

Overtired But Won’t Sleep: Understanding the Paradox A child who is overtired but won’t sleep is one of the more confusing situations parents face. Common sense says an exhausted child should fall asleep easily. The reality is the opposite — and once you...

How to Build a Bedtime Routine That Actually Works

How to Build a Bedtime Routine for Kids That Actually Works A consistent bedtime routine for kids is the single most effective thing you can do to improve how quickly your child falls asleep and how well they sleep overall. It doesn’t need to be elaborate. It...

What to Do When Your Child Keeps Getting Out of Bed

When Your Child Keeps Getting Out of Bed Every Night You’ve done the routine. You’ve said goodnight. You’ve walked out. And within ten minutes your child keeps getting out of bed — for water, for a hug, because they heard a noise, because they have...

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