Getting Children To Sleep Quickly

[arjay]

In yesterday's Daily Telegraph are some recommended books to help parents get their children to sleep in minutes rather than hours.
"The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep" has been created by Swedish behavioural psychologist and linguist Carl Johann Forssen Ehrlin and is currently outselling Harper Lee's "Go Set A Watchman" and Paula Hawkins's "The Girl On The Train".
Parents are instructed to yawn frequently, emphasise certain words and speak in a slow and calm voice when reading words in italic.
The Girl On The Train uses psychological and positive reinforcement techniques to help children relax and eventually drift off.

[bednobs]

i would not read the girl on the rain to my toddler!

[Marshwarble]

If there's anything to keep children awake it's something like Girl on the Train!

[Marshwarble]

You might as well go the whole hog and read them Psycho by Robert Bloch, mother!

[Hazel0302]

I bought The Rabbit Who Was To Fall Asleep on audiobook for my 4yo and it works really well! The man reading it has a hugely soporific voice, plus the story itself is very dull. Whatever the reason, she can't make it through the whole recording. Previously she's been lying awake for an hour, unable to calm down and settle.

[maggiebee]

I'm currently reading The Girl on the Train and certainly wouldn't read it to any child unless he/she was at least 16.

[sunny-dave]

This is all you need ...

[Arksided]

I don't have children of my own, but when babysitting my nieces three and five. I usually play with them to tire them out before bedtime... and I know more about Peppa-Pig and the little princess than I want to.

[Mamyalynne]

You get to know which stories are right for each child,they don't fit into'lists.'

[Arksided]

I like that Sunny D. I watched after I posted, but only Samual L Jackson could get away with that.

[Old_Geezer]

I prefer the game of, "Does this cloth smell like chloroform to you ?"

[Arksided]

Mamyalynne, Yes they get to choose, double story time as they share a room. Happy to do so, I adore them.

[ethandron]

We read to our two at night way past the age they could read for themselves, they enjoyed it and we enjoyed it.
Nothing nicer than snuggling down on the bed and reading a nice book to them, soporific for all of us.

[fiction-factory]

I regularly fell asleep reading to ours.

[Mosaic]

I generally found a timeline of the English Civil War did the trick, I could get 30 mat a time off to the land of nod

[Arksided]

Mallett... yes Timmy Mallet.

I'm a good uncle and would never subject them to that fella.

[woofgang]

My dad knew this trick. More than sixty years ago when I was a toddler and before that when my big sisters were babies. The problem was Mum would go upstairs to find the toddler wide awake and my Dad asleep!