A practical digital ebook for parents whose toddlers need an adult beside them to fall asleep. Learn how to build independent sleep onset gradually while protecting trust, reassurance, and connection throughout bedtime. Instead of relying on abrupt separation, this guide helps you identify the sleep association maintaining the pattern, create predictability, reduce your physical presence step by step, and respond to protest without treating it as an emergency. You will learn how to use a Five Question Sleep Pattern Audit, establish a repeatable connection ritual, set a clear sleep expectation, and use reassurance scripts that support calm boundaries. The ebook covers bedtime timing, naps, repeated requests, night wakings, pauses in the plan, and flexible boundaries. It includes the chapters Name the Sleep Association, Not the Parent’s Failure; Build Predictability Before You Reduce Presence; Move the Chair, Not the Connection; Read Protest as Information, Not an Emergency; Answer the Request, Not Every Repetition; Pause the Plan Without Rebuilding the Vigil; and Keep the Boundary Flexible, Not Unclear. Designed for parents who want meaningful change without leaving their toddler frightened or feeling abandoned.