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We are proud of supporting families since 2007. Our team of global certified sleep consultants are committed to helping all families with their baby, child, and adult sleep needs with a focus on family and pediatric sleep support and education. Our team holds training and backgrounds in registered nursing, social work, and early childhood education. Founder Alanna McGinn is the creator of the Good Night Sleep Cleanse, a Good Night Sleep Educator, and serves on the faculty at The Familly Sleep Institute. We take the trust you place in us with your family very seriously. We go above and beyond supporting our families and will treat your family as if you were our own.

28/10/2026

Two things matter more than the clocks this weekend if you have a toddler.

Halloween night, and the night after.

Here’s the first thing. One late, candy filled night will not undo your child’s sleep. Our 80/20 rule exists for nights exactly like Halloween, protect sleep most of the time, and let yourself enjoy the rest without guilt.

A bedtime that slides fifteen to thirty minutes later is genuinely manageable for most toddlers.

Past an hour late is where it starts to get hard on them, so having an end time in mind before you leave the house helps more than anything else.

Here’s the second thing, and it’s the one most parents forget. The clocks also go back this weekend. Your toddler’s body clock has no idea that happened. Some toddlers do fine jumping straight to the new time and adjusting over a week or two. Others do better shifting bedtime, wake time, and meals fifteen minutes later each day for a few days first.

Neither way is wrong, it depends on your kid.

So the real plan for this weekend isn’t about the costume or the candy count.

It’s a short routine ready to go the second you’re home, some rest earlier that day, and a little patience for the next morning.

If bedtime has felt like more of a battle than you’d like lately, Halloween weekend or not, that’s worth a real plan too.

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Comment TODDLER and I’ll send you our DIY Toddler Sleep Training Program straight to your DMs, it covers the schedule, naps, routine, and method that fits your family. Save this for Saturday.

15/10/2026

Social workers, what if you could keep helping families without the burnout?

You got into this work because you care about families. That hasn’t changed. What’s changed is the caseloads, the rigid schedules, and the exhaustion you bring home every night.

Good Night Sleep Site is hiring social workers to join our team as certified sleep consultants.

This isn’t about building a sleep business on your own. You’ll be part of an established team with 20 years in the industry, working under the Good Night Sleep Site name with ongoing support behind you.

✔️ Keep doing meaningful work with families
✔️ Work from home and set your own hours
✔️ Decide how much you take on, part time welcome
✔️ Ongoing mentorship and monthly team meetings
✔️ Done for you programs and materials
✔️ Coaching on how to market and grow your client base

If you thrive in a team setting and want to grow alongside other consultants who made this same pivot, this could be the right fit.

Certification is required, and we’ll guide you to the programs we trust most.

Comment ‘pivot’ to find out how to join our team, or find out more through the link in our bio.

13/10/2026

Is it just me, or does your teen only open up at bedtime?

If that sounds familiar, you are not imagining it, and your teen is not being difficult on purpose.

Most tweens and teens are not lying awake because they want to stall. Their minds are simply full. By the time the house goes quiet, every unanswered text, tough conversation, and tomorrow’s to do list shows up at once.

Here is the part that surprises a lot of parents. Carrying worries into bed makes falling asleep harder. Releasing them before bed makes it easier. And for a lot of kids this age, writing is far less intimidating than talking, which is exactly why a shared journal works so well as a bridge between you.

The idea is simple. Pick a notebook you both use, keep it somewhere easy to reach, and let your child write whatever is on their mind before lights out. You read it, and you write a short reply back. Decide together ahead of time whether you will talk about what is written or simply acknowledge it. Either is okay, as long as your child knows the rules going in.

Start small. A few sentences is plenty. Your job is not to solve every worry that shows up on the page. It is to show your child it is safe to put it there in the first place.

I recommend two journals built for this exact kind of back and forth, one for moms and daughters and one for moms and sons.

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Links to both are in my bio if you want a ready made place to start tonight instead of a blank notebook.

Or write ‘JOURNAL’ in the comments and I’ll DM you the links

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06/10/2026

Everything you’ve heard about sleep training failing is wrong. Or at least, it’s missing the real reason.

When a family tells me sleep training didn’t work for them, it’s almost never actually about the method they used. It’s about one of the other pieces of the puzzle being skipped along the way.

Before you ever get to how you respond to your child at night, there are three things that need to be solid first.

The first is environment. A truly dark room and consistent white noise send a much stronger signal to the brain than most people realize.

The second is routine. A calming, predictable sequence that ends with your child going down relaxed but still awake gives them the chance to practice falling asleep on their own, instead of being carried there.

The third is schedule. Sleep offered at the wrong time of day, even by an hour, can work against your child’s natural rhythm and undo the rest.

Only after all three of those are in place does the method actually get a fair shot at working. Timing also plays a role. A baby needs to be at least 4 months adjusted before this process can really click, and everyone involved in bedtime needs to be doing the same thing.

And once you start, most families need a full two weeks of real consistency before they see it stick. If your last attempt didn’t work, it likely wasn’t you, and it likely wasn’t your child either.

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Comment BABY or TODDLER, whichever fits your child’s stage, and I’ll DM you the link to the program that walks you through all four pieces so nothing gets missed this time. It’s the same framework our consultants use with every family we work with, just handed to you as a simple, step by step plan you can start tonight.

28/09/2026

This time of year, I hear from parents confused because their child seems wired instead of tired right before bed

Overtiredness happens when a child doesn’t get enough age appropriate sleep, whether that’s from a skipped nap, a late bedtime, or sleep debt building up over days.

Once that happens, the body releases a surge of stress hormones, and that’s what creates the second wind, a burst of energy that shows up right when you’d expect your child to be winding down.

The signs look different depending on age.

A toddler or preschooler tends to get clingy, more tantrum prone, or unusually silly. A school age child gets more sensitive and has a harder time with transitions. A teenager often gets forgetful and irritable in a way that’s easy to mistake for attitude instead of exhaustion.

Across every age, the fix starts in the same place.

1. An age appropriate sleep schedule
2. A calming wind down routine
3. Screens off an hour before bed
4. An earlier bedtime to help pay down that sleep debt.

Once you know what you’re actually looking at, it gets so much easier to catch it early instead of guessing your way through another rough bedtime.

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Comment TODDLER if your child is younger, or TEEN if they’re 8 to 18, and I’ll send you the free discovery guide built for your child’s stage, so you know exactly what to watch for and what to do next.

21/09/2026

POV: it’s been a chaotic summer and bedtime just got interesting.

Late nights, skipped naps, family trips, and now suddenly you’re trying to get your toddler back on some kind of schedule and they are not having it.

One more drink, one more hug, a request to say goodnight to every single stuffed animal, sound familiar?

Toddlers stall like it’s a full time job, and honestly, summer just gave them so much more material to work with.

Add in a toddler who’s recently made the jump to a big kid bed and is now testing every square inch of their new freedom, or one who’s smack in the middle of dropping to one nap or no nap at all, and bedtime can start to feel like a nightly negotiation.

Here’s the good news, none of this means something is wrong, and none of it means you’re starting from zero. It usually just means it’s time to reset expectations and get back to some consistency.

A calm, predictable bedtime routine, a clear plan for what happens when they get out of bed, again and again if needed, and a nap or quiet time schedule that actually matches where your toddler is right now can turn this around faster than you’d think.

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Comment TODDLER and I’ll send you the link to our Mini Toddler Schedules Program. For only $27 I’ve built this program, with an audio lesson to help you reset naps and bedtime, and everything in between so your toddler’s sleep gets back on track for their exact age and stage. It’s a simple reset, not a whole new system to learn.

17/09/2026

Here’s what no one tells you about toddler sleep after an inconsistent summer schedule. It doesn’t usually come back on its own, and it’s rarely just one issue causing the chaos. The toddler years bring a whole cluster of sleep challenges that tend to show up together, especially after a summer of later nights and looser routines.

There’s the toddler who’s recently moved into a big kid bed and can’t resist testing their new freedom by popping out of it, again and again.

There’s the nap transition, moving from two naps to one, or eventually to none, which almost always means some short, skipped, or late naps along the way.

There’s the classic bedtime stall, one more drink, one more hug, one more stuffed animal to say goodnight to.

And there’s the newly discovered fear of the dark, or an early wake up that keeps creeping earlier by the week.

None of these mean your toddler is suddenly a bad sleeper, and none of them mean you’re doing something wrong. They’re just part of this stage, and every single one of them responds well to the same thing, consistency. A calm bedtime routine, a clear and boring response when they get out of bed, and a nap or quiet time schedule that actually fits their age right now.

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Comment TODDLER and I’ll send you the link to our Mini Toddler Schedules Program. For only $27 I’ve built this program, with an audio lesson to help you reset naps and bedtime for exactly where your toddler is, without having to figure it all out on your own.

08/09/2026

This time of year always reminds me why the back to school sleep reset works the exact same way no matter what age your child is.

It’s never really about willpower or forcing an early bedtime the night before the first day.

In our house we start with a family meeting. We talk about why the routine is changing and why everyone’s body needs sleep to grow, focus, and feel good. It sounds simple, but including your kids in the why makes a bigger difference than most parents expect. An earlier bedtime is always part of this meeting!

We also take a hard look at the sleep environment, blackout blinds, white noise if it’s needed, and a family docking station so phones and tablets are out of bedrooms at least an hour before lights out.

And we don’t skip the feelings part. Back to school brings up real anxiety for kids and teens, new teachers, new classrooms, the unknown. Giving them space to talk about it, through a shared journal, a drawing, or just conversation at the dinner table, is as much a part of the sleep plan as the bedtime routine itself.

None of this has to be complicated, and none of it has to happen overnight.

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Comment SCHOOL and I’ll send you the link to our Mini Back to School Program, built to help you reset sleep for every age in your house before that first bell rings. It walks you through the exact schedule and routine shifts for your child’s age and stage, so you’re not guessing your way through the first week.

31/08/2026

Stop scrolling if bedtime becomes a fight the moment school starts again. I get this message from parents every single September, almost word for word. Your chill kid who used to fall asleep with no trouble is suddenly wide awake at 9pm, or you’re dragging a teenager out of bed every single morning and you don’t know why.

Here’s what I want you to know first.

This isn’t attitude and it isn’t your child being difficult. Somewhere between 8 and 18, puberty starts to shift their internal clock. Melatonin, the hormone that tells the body it’s time to sleep, starts releasing later at night. That means an earlier bedtime can feel almost impossible for them to fall into, even when you both want the exact same thing.

On top of that biological shift, school brings back busier schedules, more homework, more activities, and bedrooms that have quietly become the default place for screens.

And for a lot of kids this age, there’s a quieter piece too, worries about school or friendships that keep a busy mind from settling at night.

None of this means you’re doing something wrong. It means this stage needs the same intentional care you gave their sleep as a baby or a toddler, just adjusted for who they are now.

A consistent bedtime and wake time, a screen free wind down, and a little space to talk about what’s on their mind before lights out can make a real difference.

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Comment MINI and I’ll send you the link to our Mini Tween and Teen Sleep Program, a $27 download that comes with an audio lesson you can listen to together, right in the car or while making dinner. It’s built to help you and your child figure this out as a team, not something you have to solve alone tonight.

24/08/2026

It doesn’t automatically mean something is wrong, and it definitely doesn’t mean you need to overhaul your entire routine.

In my 19 years of doing this, I’ve found it almost always comes down to one of three things.

The first is nap length. A baby’s natural sleep cycle is only 30 to 45 minutes long, so if your baby seems to wake up cranky after a short nap, they are likely waking between sleep cycles before they’ve gotten enough rest.

The second is the skill of linking sleep cycles. However your baby falls asleep at the start of a nap or bedtime is how they will expect to fall back asleep every time they surface between cycles. If you’re doing that work for them every time, they haven’t yet had the chance to practice doing it on their own.

The third is simply personality. Some babies are grouchy wakers, full stop, and need a few quiet minutes before they’re ready to engage.

None of these three things mean you’re doing anything wrong. They just tell you where to look next. If your baby tends to wake up happy instead, that usually means they’re well rested and feel secure enough in their sleep space to be content there without you.

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If those crying wake ups are becoming the pattern rather than the exception, it might be worth taking a closer look at nap length and how bedtime is going. Comment GUIDE below and I’ll send you my free Are You Ready to Sleep Train guide straight to your DMs so you can figure out exactly where to start. Save this one for the next 3am scroll session.

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