Everyone has a bedtime routine. The question is: does it work for you and your family? With school, work, and outside activity schedules creeping into our family time, bedtime is the new dinner time. The time to connect, share, and peacefully make the transition to sleep.
And sleep experts recommend that before you visit them for sleep problems, the first thing to put in place is a consistent bedtime routine.
Brook Packard has been helping families as a music expert and storyteller for many years. She can help families prioritize their bedtime routine and end bedtime battles by making it the most special time of day...and in 20 minutes or less.
Interview topics include:
- Rebooting your bedtime routine when you get off track.
- Three ways parents might be undermining their kids' bedtime and sleep.
- Why sleep should be the first thing to look at when kids are having difficulty in school, are moody, or are having health problems.
- Simple steps for parents to take to reclaim their evenings.
- What sleep and parenting experts say to include in every child's bedtime routine.
- Dinners that support sleep and don't keep the kids up.
- Screen-free wind-down time activities.
- The importance of music and stories for family connection.
Brook Packard is a mom, educator, storyteller, caregiver, and…after years of struggle, a really good sleeper. Her mission is to to help kids sleep, help families connect at bedtime in a nurturing environment, and bring some peace to overwhelmed parents.
She is a blogger for Huffington Post, and has written books for Oak, Morehouse, and Coracle publishing. She's been voice and early childhood music faculty at Concordia Conservatory and the Mount Vernon Music Academy, as well as early childhood music specialist at numerous schools in Southern Connecticut and the metropolitan New York City area.
As an actor, Brook has performed most recently at Broward Stage, The Princeton Festival, NYMF, and b-sides productions. She is the mother of Clara and married to retired Episcopal Bishop of Federal Ministries, George Packard, traveling to military bases around the world to support his ministry.
