10 WAYS TO CONQUER BEDTIME

Do not over feed your kid before bedtime, heavy foods before sleep is unhealthy and avoid any thing containing caffeine before bedtime or 6 hours before.

Stop your kids from playing after dinner or avoid stimulating activities, this can put them off bed for a long time.

Apply rules that bedtime goes 5 minutes after dinner or make it a choice, make them choose to go before or after 5 minutes.

Build a strong bedtime routine that lasts at least 20 minutes with your child, read favorite books or stories every night and avoid scary stories or TV shows.

Do not rock your child to sleep as this will become a habit, when the child wakes he or she would want to be rocked back to sleep it is a condition called sleep-onset association disorder. Instead get the child a favorite transactional object, blanket or toy.

comfortability of the child matters alot, make sure he or she is comfortable and there is proper ventilation and moderate room temperature.

calling their parents back before sleeping is a common nature among kids, if your child calls you back, wait a moment, it would serve as a reminder that he should be asleep at that moment and that should give him time to fall back asleep.

If eventually he or she follows you back or walks back to your during bedtime, follow your child back to bed gently and pacify him or her that its bedtime.

provide tools of confidence for your child to overcome their fears e.g monster sprays, cross, toy swords, water spray.

develop a system of rewarding your child for every night spent without distraction, put up points after 5 points for 5 days reward him or her with a prize.