What’s the TV policy at your home in general?

If you’re otherwise restricting screen time, but when he’s crying you make an exception, you might have accidentally incentived him to cry… which isn’t to say that he’s doing it intentionally… Just that a real comfortable pattern has been established.

Everyone has a parenting scheme, so take anything you hear with a grain of salt…

But, I think it’d maybe be worth considering just cutting TV entirety for a little while? See how it goes? Probably a rough few days but you’ll both find a new normal. If you’re digging the new normal, keep it up. If not, go back.

530 to sit down for supper, after supper a little outing like a bike ride or car ride to the store, be home by 7, yogurt at 730, then straight to teeth brushing/bath. Pjs/books (with the light already low, then crib.

Also super consistent with nap timings. If he wakes up during his nap windows, we just let him chill in the crib.

Hardest part for us was just getting everyone into the routine. Did take a few weeks.

That being said, I’ll relay the best parenting advice we got, which was “every parent thinks what works for them is the objectively ideal approach. Every kid is different. Take it all with a grain of salt and figure out what works for you”

For us, having a rigidly consistent routine helped that kinda dovetailed into bedtime. Supper at the same time, baths/teeth brushing at the same time, pajamas at the same time, etc etc.

Maybe you’re already doing that, but it helped for us. Every kid is different, so obviously your milage may vary

It’s a reference to a twitch emote thats making the same face as that one egg

My poor Roomba. (Toddler)