Many toddlers demand highly specific rituals for bath and bedtime to feel secure. The bath routine can require filling the tub completely while leaving the drain slightly open so water 'fizzes' while the child repeatedly fills and dumps water using a cup. Bedtime may require two distinct pacifiers, a baby binky and a big green binky, used alternately and as a nose-tapping soothing action. Favorite characters must appear together; for example, Lightning McQueen may need Doc Hudson and Sally on standby. Such precise requirements can determine whether a sitter achieves a calm, sleeping child.
"'Now, with the bath, make sure you fill the tub all the way up, but then crack the drain a little bit and let the water continue fizzling out because he likes to use a cup - make sure his cup is in the bath. He likes to use a cup to fill up the water and then just continue dumping the water out, filling it up, dumping it out.'"
"'Now for bedtime, he likes having a baby binky and a big green binky - it can't be two of the same,'" Shaw said in the video. "'It has to be one of each. He likes to suck on one and the other, he likes to tap his nose with it. It's a soothing thing, I can't explain it, just do it, OK? If he has two of the same, it's over for you.'"
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