What are your top tips for getting your child to sleep? Share with Hasbro’s new Moon and Me!

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Getting your DC to sleep can be a challenge worthy of an award. It can be especially difficult when your children change the way they respond to toys, songs, or any other sleep aids you have in your parental arsenal. To celebrate the launch of their new Moon and Me Toy range, Hasbro would like you to share your tips for how you succeed in getting your child to sleep or what has helped you manage your child’s sleeping habits in the past.

Here’s what Hasbro has to say about their Moon and Me toys:
“Our lovable new toy range features favourite characters from the magical world of Moon and Me. From figures and play-sets that are perfect for playtime to soft plush that little ones will love snuggling with at bedtime! “

What are your tips and tricks for getting your children to sleep? Have you worked out a magic routine, or do you have a favourite sleep toy? Do you rely on sleep songs or other comforters to help you? Does TV make up a part of your child’s sleep routine? Who has a bigger say in picking up a sleep toy - you or your children? Does your DC already have a preferred sleep aid?

Please share your tips for getting your child to sleep below and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of your choice (from a list) and a toy bundle from the new Moon and Me toy range.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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From a very young age I would always sing twinkle twinkle little star just before I put my daughter to sleep in the hope she would associate this with going to sleep!

Probably other people will put this no computer for 2 hours before tghey go to bed. Also reading a book does help.

A good routine! Bath, story, lights out!

For my children when they were babies it was always bath, bottle, bed.

Having a good routine, then books and songs. My eldest still loves her Violet bear which sings lullabies

Routine - stick to it, start earlier so you have time to let them wind down.

Dark rooms help, so blackout lined curtains.

It's important to spend time with them, especially if it's been a busy day. But reading to them and talking over any problems they might have - or feel they might have - is so important. They can only really relax and sleep if they're reassured of your support and interest. If I'm missing something I want to see on television, there's always the DVD-recorder!

When my daughter was a baby she cried a lot. It was very difficult but in the early days we left her to cry for quite a while before going to her. In the long run this helped because I think it taught her to go to sleep herself. When she got older she had a bedtime routine that would evolve over time, and generally she has been a good sleeper.

Bathtime, warm milk and then a story or two ... also have night light with music. It is important to try and keep to a routine.

A warm bath and a story always worked when they were young. It's getting harder as they get older. They now ask for a 'supper'

Wear them out with fresh air and exercise during the day and make sure they're winding down in the evenings with calm things...baths and bedtime stories rather than games and tv!

It's all about the routine - even when staying at the grandparents/being on holiday. If they know set times for bedtimes from a young age, they're more likely to stick to them down the line!

Routine is important & I found not making too much of a fuss about going to bed seemed to make them more accepting. Oh & having about 12 teddy bears & a toy under the pillow was part of the process too!

Blackout blinds and reading them a story before bedtime.

Having a routine, and no screen time before bed really helps. Also make sure you encourage toilet use before bedtime to prevent them needing to get up again.

A strict routine has always benefited us. A warm bath and a story and then music to drift off to sleep, has usually worked for us.

Sticking to a routine at bedtime is the best way for them, it's always a bedtime story and then lights out and it seems to work.

I found keeping to the same routine really is a bonus. A bath before bed some quiet time reading a story together or maybe even two stories no extra drinks, cuddly toy and favourite blanket this all worked for me. But you have to be strict and keep to your preferred routine.

Keeping to routine and winding down before bedtime

I have a white noise app which lulls my son off to sleep and helps settle him back if he wakes up.

I also try to keep his room as cool as possible in the warm weather by closing curtains, opening the window and using a fan before bedtime to circulate fresh air.

Create a consistent bedtime routine and Turn off the TV at least two hours before bedtime

My top tips for getting my little one to sleep our to follow the same routine each night:

1. Dinner
2. Bathtime
3. Pj's on and hair brushed
4. Make bedtime drink in her special cup
5. Brush Teeth
6. Into bed for story time
7. Lights off.

Don't make a song & dance about it when they are babies, with night lights & open doors etc.

A story & then sleep worked for our son & we never had a single issue with him going to bed & staying there

We have a sound and light show, that plays music and projects an image onto the ceiling. Does the trick every time - even now that they are older.

Routine and get to know your child's natural sleep rhythms (my son was always a night owl). Plenty of day time activity but a calming evening routine with not too much rushing around. Bed time stories and cuddles help little ones.