Monitoring bedtimes for your children can be a real headache at times, and it can be made even worse if your little ones always seem to have the most energy right at the end of the day when they should be settling down for bed.
But one mum on TikTok has devised the perfect solution to making sure her kids are always calm before bed - and all you need to do is tell them how much you love them.
Melissa Lea Hughes said in a video that she sits her children down and tells them five things she loves about them, and claims her brood are always eager to hear what she has to say.
And, when paired with a soft voice and calm nature, the conversation should have any young child settled down just in time to go to bed.
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In the video, which was posted on her @mhughes79 account, Melissa talked viewers through the process, and said it's guaranteed to have kids "quiet right down and listen".
She said: “Right before your kids go to bed tonight, if you struggle with bedtime, do this one thing.
“Say to them, ‘can I tell you five things that I love about you today?’. They will quiet right down and listen.
"When you finish your list, I guarantee they will do this. [They'll say] 'and what else?'.
"Do it, and tell me how it goes. It's really cute and really fun."
Commenters on Melissa's video were quick to praise her technique, with many saying they'll be trying out the trick themselves to see if it really does help settle their children down.
One person said: "Hold on, I'm going to do this to my son."
While another added: "Noted. I will do this tonight, thank you!"
And a third wrote: "I've been doing this for the past two nights, and it's brilliant. Thank you!"
Others shared their own experience with telling or asking their children things about their day to get them ready for the wind-down time before bed.
Someone posted: "I like to ask is there anything mommy or daddy said or did today that made you upset or sad? My five-year-old comes up with surprisingly deep answers!"
As someone else commented: "We do this but we tell him what he did today that made us proud. Then we ask him what we did to make him proud, but he's too young to answer with words yet."
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