Bed time issues.

Anyone have any idea on what to do? Even with cutting naps bed time is a big battle and takes an effort of both of us. Even with a routine and a warning he just fights it. What else is there?

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Some nights more than others. Right now it's not too bad but we went through a stretch where he wasn't going to sleep till 11 and we had to go driving to get him to sleep....

What's your routine? Do they still nap?

Our boy sometimes naps sometimes not and we have a harder time on nights where he napped.

We found reading books about nighttime routine (Daniel tiger has a nice one) or a tv episode. Ms Rachel has a nice bedtime episode, for example.

We do a little tv time. Bath time/brush teeth/pajamas. Them we go to his bedroom and I set a timer for him to have like 10 minutes of quiet play. Then we do book time and I start turning off lights and turning on nighttime lights to help signal it's time for bed. I also turn on a playlist of quiet lullaby songs quiet in the background.

(Light system: turn on a string of lights on his bed and turn off the over head light. Also turn on the night light)

Not sure what might be helpful, but I hope some of that might be!

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