Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
Toddler bedtime is a sequence of negotiations disguised as a routine. Bath, pajamas, teeth, one more story, water, different water, scary noise, one more hug. A backward plan doesn't eliminate the negotiations. But it tells you when to start so there's room for them.
It starts at 7:00 with good intentions. But bath runs 10 minutes long because the rubber duck needed a friend. Pajamas take forever because the dinosaur ones are in the wash. By the time you're reading stories it's 8:15 and lights out was supposed to be 8:00. No single step ran that late. You just started the whole sequence too late.
Ready Time works backward from lights-out. You tell it each step and how long it honestly takes, including the stalling. If bath is 20 minutes on a good day, make it 25. The plan tells you when to start running the water so that the last story ends at 8:00, not 9:00.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
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