Get Bedtime Back on Track with This Chart. Download and Print!

Let your kids check off their pre-bedtime to-do list without the endless nudging. Download and print this adorable chart!

If there’s one time period of the day where an assistant would really come in handy, it’s bedtime.

On Between Carpools, we’ve shared lots of tips over the years about bedtime and sleep for all ages, and they’re rounded here in this post on 12 Ways to Take Control of Your Children’s Bedtime.

The experts really share a lot of great info about schedules and other healthy details. Still, though, bedtime is an ongoing challenge. Especially this time of year.

But we all know if we want to have a good start to the next day it takes the right preparation the night before. But how do we do it without the endless nudging and reminders?

While charts are hard to stick to long term, they’re a great tool to get kids excited and back on a schedule, at least for the first few weeks. This one is great because it reminds kids of all they need to do before they’re actually ready for bed. It doesn’t just help you in the evening, it helps you in the morning too, because they’re more ready.

And you don’t need to nudge and give reminders. The chart will do that work.

It’s so fun to fill out–use markers or stickers, whatever they like. And of course, when the chart is done, there’s an incentive at the end (choose what works for your family).

You can use it as a weekly chart, or we like to offer a small incentive whenever they reach the end of a row. In addition when the ENTIRE chart is complete they get a larger reward.

CLICK HERE TO PRINT AND DOWNLOAD THE CHART

We wish you all seamless bedtimes and a year where you don’t have to spend mornings looking for missing shoes!

Each child needs to check off his or her list before they go to sleep.