Bedtime tips - Parenting Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
This tip is for bedtime. After you've used up all of your fun, silly, sweet, routine ways to get children to lay down, I say this. Do you want to sleep on a pillow tonight? Then go put your head on it. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I take the pillow. They get it back the next morning. I think it's possible to fall asleep without a pillow, but it's undesirable. It's not negotiable that they go to bed. No doctor will say, yeah, kids don't really need to go to bed if they don't want to. They have to go to bed. You can't give it back when they cry. You have to take it when you say you will. But if you are consistent, it will take one night of no pillow. Maybe two, a couple months later. But two nights of no pillow, and now they go to bed when it's time.
Video 2 Transcript
Soak up all the contact naps you can get.
Video 3 Transcript
My name is Jeff Hill and I'm the father of 12 children and bedtime is one of my favorite times. The most important advice about bedtime is to have a consistent routine for putting the child to bed. One thing that I have found that works is to have the child be given a two-minute warning that it's going to be time for bed and then walk them around and say good night to all other family members. Walk them around and say good night to all of the pictures of extended family members and to Jesus and then use that as the prelude to getting them into bed, saying their prayers, singing with them and having a tender time with them. With consistency, bedtime is the best. Thank you.
Video 4 Transcript
When my oldest was a baby, we had trouble getting her to sleep through the night. She'd always lose her binky and she'd wake up and I asked my pediatrician about it and he said, well there's lots of things you can try. Some of them work and some of them don't but you could do what I did and just buy a bigger bed. So we actually did that. We bought a king-size bed and my daughter ended up in our bed every night for a long time until she was like two and then we got her a full-size bed so that when she wanted to take a nap or when it was time for bed, we'd lay by her until she fell asleep and she couldn't fall asleep by herself. It was terrible. So I could never stand to do the cry it out method. I know there's lots of tips and tricks but I would definitely recommend don't buy a bigger bed.
Video 5 Transcript
When they start stirring at night, rather than getting them out of the crib, just place your hand on them, their belly, and try and comfort them until they calm down and go back to sleep.
