Read in bed
In bed, reading and sleep blur into each other. The book is good and the night keeps stretching one more page, then one more. The visual support below sets a gentle line between lamp time and pillow time.
♂Boy reading in bed
A boy is lying in bed reading a book, with a bedside lamp next to him.
About this visual support
The bed is a strange place. By day it is for reading, by night it is for sleep, and the body is supposed to know the difference without a clock. When the book is exciting, the last page is never the last, and when the lamp goes off the head stays in the story for another fifteen minutes. That is not defiance, that is a blurred edge.
What the visual support adds is a visible turning point. One card for getting under the duvet with the book, one for the number of pages or a short timer, one for putting the book down, one for lights off and turning to one side. It becomes a small sequence rather than a long stretch that ends when someone says enough. The child can see where in the evening you are.
A small thing that often works: put the book on the floor next to the bed once the last page is read, not on the nightstand. The little physical move becomes a body marker that reading is over. In the Routined app you can link the reading moment to a timer and a short wind-down after, so the same transition happens every night. The first 14 days are free to try.