Slowly

Start with the lights

Step one of a free five-minute bedtime reset.

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The 5-Minute Evening Reset

1
Signal the shiftLights down, voice down, and the line that starts it.
2
Anchor calmSit close. One slow hug. Three slow breaths together.
3
Close the loopOne short song, then the sentence that ends the day.

Before you ask a child to calm down, change what the room is doing.

Lamps on, overhead off. Voice down a notch — not a whisper, just lower than the one you've been using for the last hour. Then say the line that names what's happening: we're starting our calm reset.

This is step one because it works without anyone's cooperation. You can dim a lamp whether or not the four-year-old is on board, and the room changing first makes the rest easier.

What you get

One printable pageA4, free. Print it once and put it where bedtime actually happens.
The exact wordsWhat to say to start it, to hold it, and to end the day cleanly.
For when it doesn't go cleanA line for pushback, and a section for when it only half-works.

Five minutes, even on the worst nights.

Everything you need to say is already on the page.

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