Pillow The Storyteller
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Bedtime When You Have More Than One Child (and They’re Nothing Alike)
If you’ve ever tried to run one bedtime routine for two children with completely different temperaments, you already know the problem: what settles one might wind the other one up. One wants the same book every night; the other’s bored by page two of anything familiar. One’s ready to sleep by seven; the other’s still…
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5 Gentle Ways to Support a Neurodivergent Child’s Bedtime
Bedtime advice is often written as if every child responds the same way to a dim room and a story. For many autistic children, children with ADHD, or children who process sensory input differently, that standard playbook doesn’t always translate — not because something’s wrong, but because their bedtime needs are simply different.
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Why Imagination Matters: Storytelling and Early Development
Watch a young child playing alone and you’ll often see a running commentary — a toy dinosaur is suddenly the mayor of a city, a cardboard box becomes a spaceship, a stuffed rabbit has strong opinions about dinner. It looks like simple make-believe. Underneath it, a lot of real developmental work is happening. Storytelling —…
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The Science of Sleep: What Actually Happens When Kids Rest
It’s easy to think of sleep as simply “switching off” — the day ends, the body rests, and everything picks back up the next morning largely unchanged. For children, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Sleep is one of the most active periods of a child’s day, even though it looks like the quietest.…
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Supporting Different Needs at Bedtime
Every family’s bedtime looks a little different, and for some children, the standard advice — dim the lights, read a story, lights out — doesn’t quite land the way it’s supposed to. A child who’s sensitive to noise, change, or transitions might find the very end of the day to be the hardest part of…
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Why Personalised Stories Matter More Than You’d Think
Every parent has had the experience of reading the same story for the tenth night in a row, watching their child’s attention drift somewhere around page four — and then, on a completely different night, watching that same child hang on every word of a story that happens to feature their own name, their own…
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How to Build a Bedtime Routine Your Child Actually Looks Forward To
If bedtime in your house feels like a nightly negotiation — one more page, one more glass of water, one more “just five minutes” — you’re not alone. Most bedtime battles aren’t really about sleep at all. They’re about a child who isn’t ready for the day to end, and doesn’t yet have the words…