Doing the practice together was actually calming for both of us. It really helped! We quickly had a routine in place to close the day together. So we started doing a special nighttime flow: Good Night Yoga. It didn’t feel great, and I was convinced that there was something we could do to help her use that active brain of hers to help herself to settle down.īeing that my husband and I are both yoga teachers, it seemed like there had to be an answer there. Putting her to bed always included a moment where we had to say some form of “enough” and cut her off. She wasn’t an anxious child, but it was as if she just never quite wanted to let go of the day. Maybe that’s just being five, but for her it continued year in and year out. There really weren’t enough glasses of water, back rubs, or stories for her to feel ready to say goodnight. By the time my daughter was five, it was clear that bedtime was not going to be an easy affair.
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