Your restless toddler is the offending party, but no amount of cosmic ordering will stop him pulling an all-nighter.
Luckily, there are other ways to get through eight hours of uninterrupted.
Your toddler is finally in bed and you’ve collapsed gratefully onto the sofa. Then you hear a pitter-patter and a little face appears. He’s scared. He wants water. He needs a trip to the loo...
Toddlers seem to have an in-built need to test the boundaries at bedtime. If he’s not well, it’s understandable.
However, if there’s nothing wrong and he’s still not playing ball – either by refusing to go to sleep or waking up the whole house at the crack of dawn – it’s exhausting for everyone.
But, however strict your bedtime routine (or stubborn you think your toddler is), you can teach him to play by your rules with our mantras for tired mums.
Repeat after us: ‘I am the boss of the bedroom…’
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