#84: How Not to Dread Bedtime with Your Kids

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Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bedtime--it's that sometimes elusive and dreaded time of the day, especially if you have young kids. Yet, bedtime can be the most significant time of the day to connect with your kids, and even your teens.

In this episode, we discuss the spiritual and emotional significance of bedtime. We also get super practical about turning it into one of the most memorable--and maybe even enjoyable--parts of your day. Even more, bedtime could be the environment that shapes your family and child's story for years to come.

We talk about:

* Why even Moses championed bedtime
* When it's okay to call an audible
* Practical ways to keep our kids in bed and not dread the process
* Guilt free and emotionally safe ways for either laying with our kids to help them fall asleep or making them stay in bed
* Questions we can ask our kids to draw out what's happening in their inner world

Shownotes

Click here for 15 Conversation Starters for Tucking Your Kids into Bed.

Click here for Dr. Ross Greene's book, The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children.

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0:00.0	We all have family picture frames.
0:11.8	Who are the people in yours?
0:13.4	I'm Josh.
0:14.4	And I'm Christy.
0:15.8	In This Together is a podcast where we discuss topics related to today's family.
0:23.4	We also go behind the scenes to share stories from our own crooked picture frame. And we interview guests to discover how their
0:28.5	stories can give us insight on becoming families who live, love, and lead well. Because you're
0:34.3	not alone. We're in this together.
0:40.4	This episode of the In This Together podcast is brought to you by Lifeway Women.
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0:51.3	slash women's events.
0:53.8	Welcome back to the Ends Together podcast.
0:55.8	We're talking today about how not to dread bedtime or why bedtime is so important to our kids,
1:02.6	however you want to think of it.
1:04.2	This is a conversation that is really foundational, I think, as it relates to raising
1:10.2	kids who love God and love other
1:11.7	people. And by the way, also winning our kids' hearts. Because in Deuteronomy 6, Moses says that there are
1:17.7	four key times of the day to instill the love and commands of God on our kids' hearts. And those
1:22.6	are the mundane times that are already built into our day. He's not saying we have to add anything
1:26.8	to our day. He's saying these are key times built in, in the morning when they wake,
1:33.0	during drive time or when you walk along the way, during meal time, and then when you tuck
1:38.0	your kids in bed at night, when they go to bed. And yet there's a lot of families that we meet
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