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How to Handle Bedtime Stalling Tactics Without Losing Your Patience
Endless requests for water, one more hug, another book? Here’s why bedtime stalling happens — and how to handle it calmly, night after night.
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Cosy Bedtime Story Themes for Colder Nights
As the evenings draw in and bedtime starts arriving under a darker sky, it’s worth letting story time shift with the season a little too. There’s something about colder nights that makes a certain kind of story land better — slower, cosier, a bit more wrapped-up-in-blankets than the breezier adventures of summer.
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Can AI Really Tell a Good Bedtime Story?
It’s a fair question, and one a lot of parents ask before trying Pillow for the first time: can something generated by AI actually match the warmth of a story a person wrote, or a parent tells from memory? It’s a reasonable thing to be sceptical about — bedtime stories are an emotional, intimate part…
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How Pillow Creates a Story Just for Your Child
A question we hear a lot, understandably: how does a story that feels this personal actually get made in a few taps? There’s no writer sitting up late producing a bespoke book for every child every night — instead, Pillow uses AI to build each story fresh, guided by a small amount of information that…
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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.
