When a new mom put her husband in charge of their son’s bedtime, she assumed it would all go to plan. Bedtime can often be a struggle for both kids and parents. In 2024, the C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health found that around 1 in 4 parents (27 percent) experienced difficulties in getting their child to bed.
Dalinna, a stay-at-home mom based in Connecticut, has certainly endured some struggles with her 8-month-old son, Mateo. “Lately, he’s been very attached to me and hasn’t been sleeping very well,” she told *Newsweek*. Eager to break the cycle, one recent night Dalinna asked her husband to put Mateo to bed, hoping the change would bring about a better result.
“Sometimes Mateo sleeps with him, sometimes he doesn’t,” she explained.
On that particular night, it initially looked like her plan had worked. “It seemed quiet, and my husband didn’t bring Mateo out of the room,” Dalinna said. “I had been cooking for a while, and both of them were still in the room, so I checked the camera.”
That was when she discovered the truth: Mateo wasn’t asleep at all. Not only that, he was playing games with his dad, who appeared happy to indulge his son despite the late hour.
“When I saw what was happening, I laughed, it was so cute. I really thought he was trying to put him to sleep,” Dalinna recalled.
Dalinna ended up posting footage of what she saw that night on the baby monitor to her TikTok account, @momlife.dalinnaz. An onscreen caption read: “When daddy say
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