Night Night...Nightmare?

New research reveals value of back-to-basics

bedtime routine

It’s a problem almost all parents face at some stage - getting the kids into a good bedtime routine can be a battlefield and can cause huge amounts of stress for the whole family. A new study has shown that getting children to sleep at night is causing couples to argue, lose sleep themselves and perform badly at work with 26% saying they can’t function properly the next day.

This is despite the fact that 80% of parents in the Forever Friends survey claimed they have a strict bedtime routine for their children.  But the question remains whether this routine is conducive to getting the kids to sleep at a decent hour.  Are parents still making mistakes unknowingly, such as leaving the TV on in their child’s bedroom or over-stimulating them with video games?  It seems likely with more than a third of parents saying what makes bedtime hardest is that their children are too excited or hyper.

Sleep expert, and child psychologist, Chireal Shallow believes that a back-to-basics approach could be the way forward, recommending the three B’s: bath, bed and book.  In the following video Chireal refreshes your memory on these fail-safe methods and gives some extra top tips for getting your little ones off to the land of nod, using mood-enhancing bedtime books such as ‘Night Night, Sweet Dreams’ by Forever Friends.

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For more information visit www.foreverfriends.co.uk