FOR TIRED PARENTS

Somewhere between the third tuck-in and the second glass of water, you stopped being a parent and became a hostage negotiator.

You need some relief. Imagine a child who sleeps, a house that's quiet by 9pm, and a version of your evening you had forgotten was possible.

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  • Lights Out. No Fight. You Win.

Bedtime Is Broken. Want the Manual?

Every night, we promised ourselves: Tonight will be different. Spoiler: It wasn’t. The kids were up, we were up, the dog was up. There were talks, threats, promises, fake countdowns, and desperate “this is the LAST show!” bargains. If your bedtime routine looks more like hostage negotiation and less like a wind-down, you’re in the right spot.

This is The Manual for getting your kids to actually go to bed. No magic, no hype. Just parent-tested, science-backed, sleep-wrangling tactics for tired humans raising other tired humans.

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How We Became the Bedtime People (Against Our Will)

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We’re George and Julene Gervais — parents of three, survivors of bedtime. Years back, we lost every night. It got so low that one of us (not naming names) handed over the iPad for "twenty minutes" and came back at 11:17pm to a child who had watched an entire season of cartoons. Our teen was found in the kitchen at 1:30am, building a cheeseburger. He had a Math test at 8am.

We’re not sleep doctors. We’re not influencers. We’re parents who were losing the battle at bedtime, tried everything, then got way too deep into why sleep is so weirdly hard for kids. We wrote The Manual so you get bedtime back before you join us in the kitchen at 1:30am.

It took frustration, trial, error, one night of ice cream in bed we don't talk about, and some reading about actual sleep biology. The fights got shorter, the routines got easier. The kids slept. Occasionally, so did we.

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What’s Inside The Book

156 pages. 8 chapters. Not just a short PDF.

This is a real, printed book — 156 pages of actual content, plus the cheat sheet. It arrives in a box.

  • 1. Why Bedtime Is a War (And Why Smart Parents Keep Losing It)

  • 2. What's Actually Happening in That Little Body at 8pm

  • 3. The Age Problem — Because a 4-Year-Old and a 13-Year-Old Are Simply Not the Same

  • 4. The Routine That Actually Sticks — And Why Yours Didn't

  • 5. The Ways We Make It Worse — A Loving Self-Audit

  • 6. The Saboteurs — Screens, Fears, Hunger, and the 9pm "I Need Water" Phenomenon

  • 7. The Three-Night Reset — What To Do Starting Tonight

  • 8. The Cheat Sheet

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A list of good ideas won't get you through night two.

You can find a list of good ideas in about ten seconds. Most of them will even be correct. Here's what you won't find.

  • You won't find a sequence — a specific order of specific moves, tested on real children in a real house, where step four exists because step three failed the first time we tried it.

  • You won't find anyone standing in the hallway on night two, when it's worse than night one, and you are ten seconds from caving. That's not an information problem. Nobody has ever caved because they didn't know enough.

  • And you won't find a one-page sheet for the fridge that says the 9pm water request — the ten-second fix, page 104. Because that sheet is a map of a book. It only works if the book exists.

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We're not smarter than the machine. We were just there.

Here's a Sneak Peek Preview of the Book

A sample from the 156 pages (8 chapters + appendix and sources)

We don't have many testimonials yet.

The book came out this month.

A brand-new book with fifty glowing reviews would be a little too good to be true — so we'll just be straight with you instead.

What we have is this: a house with three kids, years of losing bedtime, and a system that finally held. It's in the book. You just read some of it.

If you read the rest and it works — tell us. We'll put your name right here.

Here's what we do have ...

... parents like myself... can relate so much to this”

~Reviewer

"I can't get over how good this is. It is so well written. It should be a best seller! I did not get tired of reading it at all"

~Ellen

I love the family story there ... This is right up my alley”

~Reviewer

Lights out. No fight. You won.

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Questions, Doubts, and What Actually Works

Look, if it was as simple as a chart or a sticker, you’d be done by now. You may be thinking: “My kid is different.” “Nothing works for us.” “Isn’t sleep just luck?” “Aren’t they supposed to be tired?”

Sleep research consistently shows kids need sleep, but most parents are running on caffeine and hope. The Manual is layered for age, fatigue, and actual biology—and it’s made for parents who would rather not stay up until midnight Googling ‘when do kids sleep?’

Picture This

You get your post-bedtime life back. Dishes can wait. The grownups can talk. The house is not standing on a Lego at 10:45pm. Maybe you can even hear yourself think.

All from a book written by two parents who’ve lost the late-night battle more times than we care to count. We won — eventually. Now you can, too.

If nothing changes…

  • You're still in the hallway at 10:45pm next Tuesday, pretending to read so your kid will finally fall asleep.

  • Your kid keeps trending toward chronic under-sleeping — which compounds quietly into focus problems, mood swings, and the kind of morning fatigue teachers start to notice.

  • Your evenings — the reason you bought a house with a living room — stay erased.

  • The pattern doesn't stabilize on its own. It solidifies.

You don't need a perfect system.
You need a better one than the one you're using.

Lights Out. No Fight. You Won.

The Manual costs less than a week’s coffee. If it helps you reclaim bedtime, it’s worth far more. The value is what you get back: time, quiet, your evenings, your sanity. That’s not hype. It’s just honest math.

We promise this: Night three is easier. Parents who get there don’t go back.

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Want the One-Page Cheat Sheet?

Not ready for the whole Manual? Grab our free Bedtime Battle Cheat Sheet. It’s the one thing we wish we'd had taped to the fridge, back when we started.