30/10/2026
2am, Toniebox on, third Peppa story and somehow they’re more awake than you are 🫠
Stories are brilliant at bedtime, but a story is something to listen to.
Their brain follows every word, waits for what happens next, and the moment it stops they’re calling for it back on. Before long the Toniebox becomes the thing they need to fall back to sleep, every single time.
Try a swap tonight, once the bedtime story is done, switch to white noise.
The same steady sound all night, nothing to follow and nothing that ends. It tells their brain it’s sleep time, not story time.
DM SLEEP if night wakings are running your house.
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