Child OCD Bedtime Battles: How to Stop the Nighttime Loops That Trap You and Your Child
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Bedtime shouldn’t feel like a battleground—but for many families raising a child with OCD, nighttime is when the OCD compulsions ramp up and take over. In this episode, child therapist and OCD parenting expert Natasha Daniels breaks down the most common nighttime OCD compulsions that trap both kids and parents in exhausting loops.
You’ll learn:
- What nighttime OCD rituals look like (and why they’re so common)
- How OCD pulls parents into the loop through reassurance and rituals
- Why giving in fuels OCD—even when it feels easier in the moment
- How to set clear, loving boundaries that break the OCD cycle
- What to do during the day to reduce OCD struggles at night
Whether your child is stuck repeating bedtime routines, seeking endless reassurance, or confessing before sleep—this episode will help you understand what’s happening and what to do next.
Listen in and learn how to take back bedtime—without feeding OCD.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:11.5 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.5 | Here's your host, child therapist, Natasha Daniels. Well, hello there, |
| 0:23.4 | and welcome to another episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. Today, I want to talk to you about |
| 0:29.3 | those really rough bedtime, nighttime struggles with your child or teen with OCD. It's funny, I did a reel that I didn't think was going to do that great, |
| 0:42.7 | where I'm coming in and out of a door stuck in a loop with my daughter. |
| 0:48.5 | It was actually kind of based off of my own experience as a parent saying, I love you. |
| 0:53.4 | I love you, I love you too. |
| 0:54.1 | I love you, I love you too. I love you, I love you too. |
| 0:55.2 | I'll see you tomorrow, I'll see you tomorrow. |
| 0:56.4 | And it was like this round and around you go. |
| 0:59.1 | And it was just one of those reels like, you know, when OCD gets you stuck on a loop before |
| 1:03.4 | bedtime. |
| 1:04.7 | And it did so good. |
| 1:07.5 | I mean, so many people resonated with that. |
| 1:09.5 | And the number one comment I got on that |
| 1:11.2 | real was, what do we do? What do we do if that happens? And, you know, I hate, I hate when I do a |
| 1:18.2 | reel and then I want to give advice, but you can't, you can't answer something in a quick comment. |
| 1:26.4 | It feels like non-therapeutic and really not clinically sound, |
| 1:31.2 | just be like, just do this because it's much more detailed than that. |
| 1:35.2 | So I said, I'll do a podcast episode on it. |
| 1:38.3 | And this is the podcast episode because apparently I'm not the only one dealing with this. And this is a very, |
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