| Do you dread bedtime? Does your child call to you | | | | - Remove the TV's from your child's bedroom. |
| after you have already read 3 stories, plus 2 and | | | | - Buy a portable timer. |
| checked for monsters and lined up the stuffed animals | | | | - Buy or make a special pillow or stuffed toy- |
| and made sure that the door was ajar in exactly the | | | | Tonight: |
| correct position to your child's specifications? Does | | | | - Before dinner, tell your child that there will be a new |
| your child get out of bed over and over until you are | | | | bedtime plan. Give them the pillow or stuffed animal |
| both exhausted and your child is crying? | | | | and tell them that this is their very own Magical |
| Does your child demand that you lie down with her | | | | Protection. It keeps monsters out of kid's rooms and |
| him? And stay there until your child falls asleep? Do | | | | helps kids get comfy and fall asleep very fast. |
| you find yourself drifting off and waking up two hours | | | | - 10 minutes before bedtime, tell you child they get to |
| later in your child's bed? Or worse, when you try to | | | | choose 2 to 3 stories, their choice, but no more. After |
| sneak out, does your child wake up and demand that | | | | you read each story repeat "ok that was number_ |
| you return? Or do you wake up in your own bed and | | | | story we have _ left." |
| notice the extra little body sleeping peaceful beside | | | | - Tuck your child in. Tell your child that you have a |
| you? | | | | timer and are going to set the timer to go off in 5 |
| If any of this sounds familiar then you are probably | | | | minutes and that you are going to return and make |
| waking up exhausted in the morning, dragging yourself | | | | sure that the Magical Protector is doing his/her job. |
| through your day and dreading this evening when it all | | | | - When you go back, reassure your child that s/he is |
| starts again. | | | | safe and tell them you will be back again in 6 minutes. |
| How would you like to be able to tuck your child into | | | | Keep going back and start spacing out the checking. |
| bed with a night time kiss and have the rest of the | | | | - If your child gets out of bed, calmly walk him/her |
| night for you? And, how would you like to wake up | | | | back to bed and repeat from the beginning. |
| feeling rested and refreshed the next morning? | | | | - If your child ends up in your bed same drill. (I know |
| And how would you like to have enough energy to | | | | you are tired!) Do it anyway. |
| make it through your day without needing a nap? And | | | | The average time it takes to retrain your child is about |
| look forward to bedtime with your child? | | | | 3 days. Sometimes more and sometimes less. The |
| Follow these instructions: | | | | less you give in the quicker your successs will be and |
| Today: | | | | the more rested and peaceful you will feel! |