Family sleep: where to start when nobody sleeps

Sleep difficulties rarely start in the evening. More often the cause is what happened two or three hours earlier: overload, screens, activity that ran too late.

Try logging the events of the evening for a week instead of the bedtime hour. That shows which element shifts everything else.

A stable, short evening scenario works better than a long perfect ritual you can't sustain every day.

If sleep problems persist and affect your child's wellbeing, see a doctor.