One mom came up with a brilliant hack for getting her hyper kid to go to bed, and it’s just crazy enough to work! A woman named Brittany discovered that, in order to help her son wind down for the night, she first had to tire him out. So, she invented a fun “game” they could play together before bedtime. Surprisingly, it involves a Nerf gun!
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Brittany demonstrated her hilarious “mom hack” in a video on social media. Stationed at the end of a hallway, she shot Nerf dart after Nerf dart at her son while he ran back and forth trying to avoid them. She missed every time, but that was ok. As long as the boy was tiring himself out, Mom’s plan was working!
“The point of this game is to make your kid think you’re trying to get them with the Nerf dart, but in reality you’re just trying to get them to run back and forth as many times as possible to wear them out before bed,” wrote Brittany over the footage. “He thinks he’s winning, but really, I’m winning.”
As mothers of three kids, Brittany and her wife, Ashley, definitely need their sleep. So, it’s a good thing that these moms created a simple hack for getting their children to go to bed when they’re feeling wired! Many parents online could probably benefit from this clever idea.
Getting kids to go to bed is almost never easy.
If you take a quick peek on social media, you’ll find that there are tons of parents with their own unique methods for getting their children to go to sleep. Bedtime is a pretty common issue, especially when dealing with very young kids! Although you should always be careful when taking advice from the internet, it’s definitely nice to see moms and dads sharing their expertise with each other online. It does take a village, after all!
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