Bedtime worries — age 12
Your child is thinking about tomorrow’s presentation and feels too unsettled to sleep.
First help with any practical uncertainty: What part are you worried about? Is there something we can prepare now?
Then offer a choice between familiar activities. Journal Time may provide somewhere to put their thoughts. Star Breathing invites slow breaths at a comfortable pace. Cloud Float offers an imagined quiet scene if visualisation appeals to them.
Let your child decide whether to use a card and whether they want your company. An older child may prefer a discreet reminder or private access to the cards.
Avoid making sleep the test of whether an activity worked
. Notice what they found comfortable and useful.