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Record it once
Press record on the owl's belly and read their favorite book, or make one up. Up to 3 minutes. Do it in the afternoon, not at bedtime.
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Hush the Bedtime Owl
Get your evenings back. Your voice stays with them.
Record one story. It plays back in your voice every night.
3 min of your voice
Off at 30, 60, 90 min
Warm night light
No screen, no phone
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3 minutes of your voice
Switches itself off
Warm light, no screen
30-night keep-it guarantee
If bedtime looks like this
It's 9pm and you're still on the floor
Bath, teeth, pajamas, two books. Light off. You stand up and head for the door.
Water. Then the potty, from a kid who isn't even potty trained.
One more story. Then the blanket is wrong. Then the blanket is too comfortable.
“I can't sleep without you.” So you lie down on the floor next to the bed.
You're on your phone in the dark, waiting. The evening you were going to have is already gone.
They don't need you to do anything. They need something familiar in the room. Right now, the only familiar thing in there is you.
How it works
Three steps, and the last one is leaving
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Image: press playChild tucked in, owl glowing on the pillow, room lit only by the owl
Press play at bedtime
Lights low, warm glow on. They hear you tell the story, exactly the way it went last night.
Image: walk outBedroom door ajar from the hallway side, warm glow inside, nobody in the doorway
Walk out
When the story ends, soft sound carries on and switches itself off. The rest of the evening is yours.
You are not the only one on that floor
What parents actually say at 9pm
Not our words. These are public comments from parenting threads, with the number of other parents who upvoted them.
Right?? Like I truly don’t even blame her. I don’t even like sleeping in a bed by myself. But like WHEN WILL I GET MY EVENINGS BACK 😭
I’ve been held hostage at bedtime for years now with my 5 year old. We’ve moved the chair into the hallway now. Progressing slowly lol
Lying here on my phone next to my 3.5 year old son, hoping I get sometime to wash my face and brush my teeth before sleep takes me. 😂
by 10:30 PM I’m no longer parenting. I’m just a hostage in a very long bedtime negotiation
I’m thirsty. Ok, now I’m hungry. Now that I just ate, I’m thirsty again. Can you read me another story? Another one! My blood pressure rises at bed time
As parents, we don’t get time to spend with each other nor talk with each other.
What makes it work
Built around the one thing they’re stalling for
Your voice, not a stranger’s
Three minutes is a short picture book, or a story you make up about their day. No narrator they’ve never met. No new character to get excited about.
So you’re still the one telling the story, even from downstairs.
The same words, every night
A recording never changes. Same pace, same pauses, same ending. It’s the same reason they can finish the sentences in a book you’ve read a hundred times.
So the words in their story become words they know.
A timer that doesn’t need you
Set the soft sound to switch off at 30, 60 or 90 minutes. It turns itself off on schedule, so there’s nothing to creep back in and switch off at 11pm.
So once you’re out, you stay out.
Something to hold, not a speaker on a shelf
It’s soft, it sits right on the pillow, and the glow is warm, not bright. Something they cuddle becomes part of falling asleep. A gadget becomes something to fiddle with.
So bedtime has a friend in it, not a device.
Against what you’re doing now
What actually gets you out of the room
| The owl | Lying with them | Tablet / TV | Story box | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You leave the room | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| No screen in the bedroom | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| They hear your voice | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Nothing new to stay up for | Yes | Yes | No | New cards |
| No stories to keep buying | Yes | Yes | Yes | $10-$20 each |
Lying with them works, but it costs you every evening. The owl keeps the part that works, your voice and a story they know, and hands the evening back to you.
Try it for 30 nights
30nights
Still stuck in the room? Keep the owl and we’ll refund you.
Use it every night for a month. If bedtime still ends with you on the floor, email us within 30 nights of delivery and we’ll refund you in full.
You don’t post the owl back. A cuddled owl can’t go to another family anyway, so there’s no reason to make you pay for the postage.
Before you order
“Will this work on my kid?”
Most bedtime advice is written for a kid who stays in bed when you ask. Yours isn't that kid, and the owl doesn't need them to be.
It doesn't ask them to cooperate. It gives them what they're really stalling for, which is you, in a form that stays after you've gone.
The 7-Night Plan that comes with it is written for this exact kid, including what to do on night one when they get up anyway.
A new story will. That's exactly why you record one and play the same one every night.
The first couple of nights they listen closely. By the end of the week they know every word, and a story they know by heart is the least exciting thing in the room. Bored is what you want.
Maybe. Needing a soft owl that sounds like you is a lot easier to live with than needing you on the floor until 9pm.
And the sound switches itself off at 30, 60 or 90 minutes, so it isn't playing all night.
A speaker plays whatever you put on it. This plays you.
It sits on the pillow, it's soft enough to hold, and the voice coming out of it is the one they were asking for. That's the difference between a gadget in the room and part of falling asleep.
It's the best time. The bars came off, and so did the thing that kept bedtime contained. A familiar voice on the pillow is something that didn't change.
Start it the same week, and follow the 7-Night Plan so every night runs the same way.
Start now. Once the baby arrives you won't have an hour to spend on the floor, and a habit is far easier to build before your arms are full.
By the time the baby comes, the story in your voice is simply how bedtime works.
They can, but they'll end up arguing about whose story plays. One each means each child falls asleep to their own story, in your voice, on their own pillow.
Two owls or more also unlock the Two-Kid Bedtime Plan, free, for the nights you're doing bedtime on your own.
Then it costs you nothing. Use it for 30 nights. If you're still stuck in the room, email us and we'll refund you in full, and you keep the owl.
Read the story once. Get the evening back.
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