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.