Sleep: Helping a Wired Brain Switch Off
This guide is for the parent who finds themselves on a dark landing at half past nine, listening to a child who should have been asleep two hours ago and who's still calling out and getting up, somehow more alert than they were at teatime. It's for the parent who's come to dread bedtime, who's tried the warm bath and the lavender and the early start and the later start and the screens turned off and the gentle reminders, and who's starting to feel that everyone else's children go to sleep while theirs won't.
It's for the parent of a child who finds the world hard in the daytime and then, when the day is finally meant to be over, can't find the off switch, whose brain seems to wake up the moment the lights go down. You can see that your child is exhausted, and yet they still lie there with their legs going and their mind racing, or they need you in the room, or they wake at two in the morning ready to start the day.
What this guide covers
- Why sleep is the first domino
- Why switching off is genuinely hard
- Building a wind-down that works
- The sleep environment
Who it is for
For parents who need a fuller explanation of this subject and practical examples they can recognise in everyday life.
What membership adds
The full guide explains the subject in depth and brings the practical choices together in one place.
Related public topics
This overview and the linked topic pages are public. The complete guide is included with FamilyFX membership.