Trish the Lamp: Bedtime Routine for Toddlers

Some nights, bedtime feels like a battle you didn't sign up for.

You're tired. They're wired. And somehow it's 8:30pm and nobody is anywhere near sleep.

This isn't another sleep training method. There are no promises of sleeping through the night — because that's not what this is about.

This is about the hour before.

The slow-down. The signal. The same six steps, in the same order, every single night — until your toddler's body learns, on its own, that sleep is coming. Safely. Predictably. Without the fight