Save this routine in Ready Time and it tells you when to start each step.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.
Toddler bedtime is a chain of small negotiations: bath, pajamas, teeth, one more story, water, different water, a scary noise, one more hug. A backward plan doesn't remove those. It tells you when to start so there's room for them.
It starts at 7:00 with good intentions. Then 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 the last story ends at 8:00 instead of 9:00.
Write down the times, not just the steps. A sitter who knows bath starts at 7:00 and lights out is 8:00 can hold the line on one more story, because the answer comes from the schedule. In Ready Time you share the plan, they tap once, and their phone runs the alert for each step. Ask them to text you anything that ran long so you can fix the durations before next time.
Long enough to hold everything you actually do, and short enough to finish at lights out. The plan above runs an hour, 7:00 to 8:00. That hour is what you get when you add up real steps: the tidy-up, the bath, pajamas and teeth, stories, and the tuck-in that always takes longer than it looks.
Fix lights out and work back through the steps you genuinely do. If the math starts the routine before dinner is cleared, the routine is longer than your evening. Better to learn that on a calm Tuesday than at 8:40 with one more book to go.
Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.
Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
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Save this routine in Ready Time and it tells you when to start each step.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.