THE ROUTINE RESET
Fourteen days to a calmer house
Most back-to-school advice tells you what a good bedtime routine looks like. It doesn't tell you what to do at 9:40 PM when your kid is out of bed for the fourth time and you have to be up at six.
This guide is built the other way around.
Inside, you'll find the arithmetic for your child's actual bedtime — not a range off the internet, the number that falls out of their wake time and their age. You'll find the exact words to say at the nine moments where routines break down, including the screen handoff and the stall loop. And you'll find a full chapter on what to do when it stops working around day five, because that's the normal path, not a sign you did it wrong.
What's in it:
The bedtime math — find your family's real lights-out and wake times in about ten minutes
Why the afternoon crash has two different causes that need opposite responses
The handoff protocol that ends the screen fight before it starts
Nine scripts, word for word, for the hardest moments
Nine specific ways routines fail, and what to change for each one
Quick reference by age, from five to eighteen
How to tell normal adjustment from something worth a closer look
General education, not medical advice.
THE ROUTINE RESET
Fourteen days to a calmer house
Most back-to-school advice tells you what a good bedtime routine looks like. It doesn't tell you what to do at 9:40 PM when your kid is out of bed for the fourth time and you have to be up at six.
This guide is built the other way around.
Inside, you'll find the arithmetic for your child's actual bedtime — not a range off the internet, the number that falls out of their wake time and their age. You'll find the exact words to say at the nine moments where routines break down, including the screen handoff and the stall loop. And you'll find a full chapter on what to do when it stops working around day five, because that's the normal path, not a sign you did it wrong.
What's in it:
The bedtime math — find your family's real lights-out and wake times in about ten minutes
Why the afternoon crash has two different causes that need opposite responses
The handoff protocol that ends the screen fight before it starts
Nine scripts, word for word, for the hardest moments
Nine specific ways routines fail, and what to change for each one
Quick reference by age, from five to eighteen
How to tell normal adjustment from something worth a closer look
General education, not medical advice.
