The Bedtime Wind-Down Pack — 45 Printables for Stalling, Night Worries & the 8pm Fight

One more thing.

One more drink. One more story. One more trip to the bathroom that isn't about the bathroom. By the fourth time you've walked back down the hall, bedtime has eaten the only two hours of the day that were supposed to be yours.

Stalling is almost never defiance. It's a child whose body hasn't been given a runway — no signal that the day is landing — plus a dark room where the worries they were too busy to feel all day finally catch up.

This pack gives them the runway and somewhere to put the worries.

📦 What's inside — 45 pages

• 4 visual routine charts — picture-based, with a version for kids who need a countdown and one for kids who need choices
• The Worry Jar system — write it, fold it, post it, close the lid. Plus a "worries we solved" page for the morning
• 10 wind-down scripts — three-minute body scans, the "tell me three boring things" game, and the one for when they're already crying
• The Goodnight Pass — two tokens a night for legitimate requests, which ends the negotiation without a fight
• A monster-under-the-bed page set — for 3–6s, where the fear gets drawn, named, and made ridiculous
• A sleep tracker — two weeks, one line a night, so you can see whether it's the nap, the screen, or the sugar

🖍️ How it works

Print the routine chart and the Goodnight Pass tonight. Use them exactly the same way for five nights before you judge it — the whole mechanism depends on repetition, not novelty.

❓ Common questions

My kid is 9 — is this too young for them? The routine charts skew younger; the worry jar, body scans and sleep tracker work well through about 11.

Does this work with two kids sharing a room? Yes, and there's a shared-room version of the routine chart included.

Digital download. Nothing physical ships. PDF, US Letter + A4.