Tawnia Newton’s son, Mitch, has his own little bedtime routine. He puts on his pajamas, brushes his teeth, gets a glass of water, uses the bathroom and then listens to a CD as he falls asleep.This process has not always been that easy, though, Newton said. Before, she said, “we had kind of a loose routine” that didn’t work very well.

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