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Things we've learned from talking to parents about bedtime.

A small wooden globe on a bedside table beside an apricot lamp in a plum dusk room. How different cultures approach bedtime.
How other cultures do bedtime
Scandinavia, Japan, Italy, France. Bedtime is not universal, and the variations are useful.
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A well worn picture book sitting closed on a child's bed, an apricot lamp glowing nearby. Why bedtime stories stop working.
Why bedtime stories stop working
The same book has been read forty seven times. Here is what is actually happening.
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A lamp glowing on a bedside table next to a stack of books. The science of bedtime routines for kids two to eight.
The science of bedtime routines
What the research actually says, and why the routines in parenting books rarely survive real homes.
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A small hand reaching toward a stack of well loved picture books in apricot lamplight. Why children want the same bedtime story every night.
Why kids ask for the same story every night
Repetition is not boredom. The brain is doing real work, and the request is older than the book.
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A child's bedside table at dusk with an open picture book under a lamp and a crescent moon through the window. Bedtime for a five year old.
Why your 5 year old won't go to bed
Five reasons bedtime breaks down with a 5 year old, in the order we'd check them.
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A child's bedroom door slightly ajar with a sliver of warm apricot light spilling in. Bedtime fears and the dark.
Bedtime fears (monsters, the dark, the closet)
Why fears show up at bedtime, and why telling them there is nothing there usually makes it worse.
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A clock face showing 8:47pm sitting in soft apricot lamplight. Why bedtime feels harder than the rest of the parenting day.
Why bedtime feels harder than the rest of the day
8pm is heavier than 8am. The structural reasons it feels that way.
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A parent's hand resting on an open picture book, warm apricot lamplight. The benefits of reading aloud to children.
The science of reading aloud
What kids actually get from being read to, beyond vocabulary. The numbers and the rest.
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A small chair beside a glowing apricot lamp with a stuffed toy resting on it. Toddler bedtime stalling at the 8pm hour.
Why your toddler stalls at bedtime
One more story. Water. Cuddle. The 8pm negotiation is developmental, not manipulation.
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